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.

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

A solitary, unused to speaking of what he sees and feels, has mental experiences which are at once more intense and less articulate than those of a gregarious man.

It is most certainly a good thing that the world knows only the beautiful opus but not its origins, not the conditions of its creation; for if people knew the sources of the artist's inspiration, that knowledge would often confuse them, alarm them, and thereby destroy the effects of excellence. strange hours! strangely enervating labor! bizarrely fertile intercourse of the mind with a body!

Yes, they are carnal, both of them, love and death, and therein lies their terror and their great magic!

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

We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.