For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.

It is precisely those artists and writers who are most inclined to think of their art as the manifestation of their personality who are in fact the most in bondage to public taste.

One does not play Bach without having done scales. But neither does one play a scale merely for the sake of the scale.

True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.

To be a hero or a heroine, one must give an order to oneself.

The virtue of hope is an orientation of the soul towards a transformation after which it will be wholly and exclusively love.

The contradictions the mind comes up against, these are the only realities, the criterion of the real. There is no contradiction in what is imaginary. Contradiction is the test of necessity.