Intellectual adherence is never owed to anything whatsoever, for it is never in any degree a voluntary thing. Attention alone is voluntary. It alone forms the subject of an obligation.

The demonstrable correlation of opposites is an image of the transcendental correlation of contradictories.

Even if our efforts of attention seem for years to be producing no result, one day a light that is in exact proportion to them will flood the soul.

Someone who does not see a pane of glass is not aware of not seeing it.

The work of art which I do not make, none other will ever make.

As soon as men know that they can kill without fear of punishment or blame, they kill; or at least they encourage killers with approving smiles.

Algebra and money are essentially levelers; the first intellectually, the second effectively.