In a mathematical proposition, for example, the objectivity is given, but therefore its truth is also an indifferent truth.

Why I so much prefer autumn to spring is that in the autumn one looks at heaven--in the spring at the earth.

The more people who believe something, the more apt it is to be wrong. The person who's right often has to stand alone.

What labels me, negates me.

The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but, if one will, are to be lived.

What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music.

Certainty... lurks at the door of faith and threatens to devour it.