Our bodies are molded rivers.

The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.

To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.

Character is a wish for a perfect education.

The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.

Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.

When one begins to reflect on philosophy—then philosophy seems to us to be everything, like God, and love. It is a mystical, highly potent, penetrating idea—which ceaselessly drives us inward in all directions. The decision to do philosophy—to seek philosophy is the act of self-liberation—the thrust toward ourselves.