What a difference! Under the esthetic sky, everything is buoyant, beautiful, transient! when ethics arrives on the scene, everything becomes harsh, angular and infinitely boring

Wherever there is a crowd there is untruth.

What I really need is to get clear out about what I must do, not what I must know, except insofar as knowledge precedes every act.

The more one suffers, the more, I believe, has one a sense for the comic. It is only by the deepest suffering that one acquires true authority in the use of the comic, an authority which by one word transforms as by magic the reasonable creature one calls man into a caricature.

All moral elevation consists first and foremost of being weaned from the momentary.

Ulysses was not comely, but he was eloquent, Yet he fired two goddesses of the sea with love

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.