The only way into truth is through one's own annihilation; through dwelling a long time in a state of extreme and total humiliation.

A beautiful woman looking at her image in the mirror may very well believe the image is herself. An ugly woman knows it is not.

There are only two things that pierce the human heart. One is beauty. The other is affliction.

Religion as a source of consolation is an obstacle to true faith.

Justice consists in seeing that no harm is done to men. Whenever a man cries inwardly: 'Why am I being hurt?' harm is being done to him. He is often mistaken when he tries to define the harm, and why and by whom it is being inflicted on him. But the cry itself is infallible.

Art has no immediate future, because all art is collective and there is no more collective life.

Whoever is uprooted himself uproots others. Whoever is rooted himself doesn't uproot others.