The most ridiculous were those who, on their own authority, made themselves the judges and justices of the tribe. They seemed never to suspect that our judgments judge us, and that nothing exposes our weaknesses and reveals ourselves more naively than the attitude of pronouncing upon our neighbors.

My soul is nothing now but the dream dreamt by matter struggling with itself!

God made everything out of nothing. But the nothingness shows through.

One had to be a Newton to notice that the moon is falling, when everyone sees that it doesn't fall.

Two dangers constantly threaten the world: order and disorder.

Growing nations should remember that, in nature, no tree, though placed in the best conditions of light, soil, and plot, can continue to grow and spread indefinitely.

An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.