That only shows you have no heart,’ she said. But her eyes said that she knew he had a heart, and that was why she was afraid of him

Art is the uniting of the subjective with the objective, of nature with reason, of the unconscious with the conscious, and therefore art is the highest means of knowledge.

She put both her hands on his shoulders and gazed at him long, with a deep look of ecstasy and yet searchingly. She scrutinized his face to make up for the time she had not seen him. She compared, as she did at every interview with him, the image her fancy painted of him (incomparably finer than, and impossible in actual existence) with his real self.

If you want to be happy, just be.

I was now prepared to accept any faith so long as it did not demand a direct denial of reason, which would have been a deceit.

The ideas of the wise have been tested by centuries. Everything medium is lost and only original, deep and useful things are left.

So long as people do not consider all men as their brothers and do not consider human life as the most sacred thing, which rather than destroy they must consider it their first and foremost duty to support; that is so long as people do not behave towards one another in a religious manner, they will always ruin one another's lives for the sake of personal gain.