Is not life in itself a thing of goodness, irrespective of whether the course it takes for us can be called a 'happy' one?

There were profound reasons for his attachment to the sea: he loved it because as a hardworking artist he needed rest, needed to escape from the demanding complexity of phenomena and lie hidden on the bosom of the simple and tremendous; because of a forbidden longing deep within him that ran quite contrary to his life's task and was for that very reason seductive, a longing for the unarticulated and immeasurable, for eternity, for nothingness. To rest in the arms of perfection is the desire of any man intent upon creating excellence; and is not nothingness a form of perfection?

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.

For the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over his thoughts.

The Freudian theory is one of the most important foundation stones for an edifice to be built by future generations, the dwelling of a freer and wiser humanity.

Stupid — well, there are so many kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst.

He thought what a fine thing it was that people made music all over the world, even in the strangest settings – probably even on polar expeditions.