It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.

For the myth is the foundation of life; it is the timeless schema, the pious formula into which life flows when it reproduces its traits out of the unconscious.

Technology and comfort - having those, people speak of culture, but do not have it.

Thought that can merge wholly into feeling, feeling that can merge wholly into thought - these are the artist's highest joy.

I tell them that if they will occupy themselves with the study of mathematics they will find in it the best remedy against the lusts of the flesh.

The accouterments of life were so rich and varied, so elaborated, that almost no place at all was left for life itself. Each and every accessory was so costly and beautiful that it had an existence above and beyond the purpose it was meant to serve – confusing the observer and absorbing attention.

In books we never find anything but ourselves. Strangely enough, that always gives us great pleasure, and we say the author is a genius.