Mathematics is the Life of the Gods.
A certain degree of solitude seems necessary to the full growth and spread of the highest mind; and therefore must a very extensive intercourse with men stifle many a holy germ, and scare away the gods, who shun the restless tumult of noisy companies and the discussion of petty interests.
Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.
The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.
Life is the beginning of death. Life is for the sake of death. Death is at once the end and the beginningโat once separation and closer union of the self. Through death the reduction is complete.