Why is it that reality, when set down untransposed in a book, sounds false?

He who has not God in himself cannot feel His absence.

The whole evolution of present-day society tends to develop the various forms of bureaucratic oppression and to give them a sort of autonomy in regard to capitalism as such.

We should do only those righteous actions which we cannot stop ourselves from doing.

The poet produces the beautiful by fixing his attention on something real.

A work of art has an author and yet, when it is perfect, it has something which is anonymous about it.

In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish.