One should identify oneself with the universe itself. Everything that is less than the universe is subjected to suffering.

It is a fault to wish to be understood before we have made ourselves clear to ourselves.

When literature becomes deliberately indifferent to the opposition of good and evil it betrays its function and forfeits all claim to excellence.

The real sin of idolatry is always committed on behalf of something similar to the State.

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.

The entire universe is nothing but a great metaphor.

All sins are attempts to fill voids.