Art includes everything that stimulates the desire to live

Industry has operated against the artisan in favor of the idler, and also in favor of capital and against labor. Any mechanical invention whatsoever has been more harmful to humanity than a century of war.

Science is the only truth and it is the great lie. It knows nothing, and people think it knows everything. It is misrepresented. People think that science is electricity, automobilism, and dirigible balloons. It is something very different. It is life devouring itself. It is the sensibility transformed into intelligence. It is the need to know stifling the need to live. It is the genius of knowledge vivisecting the vital genius.

A definition is a sack of flour compressed into a thimble

Two elements are needed to form a truth - a fact and an abstraction

If the secret of being a bore is to tell all, the secret of pleasing is to say just enough to be -not understood, but divined.

Women still remember the first kiss after men have forgotten the last.