Creation, even when it is a mere outpouring from the heart, wishes to find a public. By definition, creation is sociable. Yet it can be satisfied with merely one single reader: an old friend, a lover.

I entreat fresh visions from the painters. Be lavish with your vermilion to portray the mountains in the spring.

But if a few awake, you can't say there is no hope of destroying the iron house.

But anyone who thinks themselves genuinely unbiased is bound to be taken in.

Whoever thinks he is objective must already be half drunk.

I felt that if a man's proposals met with approval, it should encourage him; if they met with opposition, it should make him fight back; but the real tragedy for him was to lift up his voice among the living and meet with no response neither approval nor opposition just as if he were left helpless in a boundless desert.

When a great man has become petrified, and everyone begins to proclaim his greatness, he has already turned into a puppet.