Libraries can take the place of God.

Fear prophets and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them.

Nothing is more fleeting than external form, which withers and alters like the flowers of the field at the appearance of autumn.

When the writer (or the artist in general) says he has worked without giving any thought to the rules of the process, he simply means he was working without realizing he knew the rules.

I have lost the freedom of not having an opinion.

True learning must not be content with ideas, which are, in fact, signs, but must discover things in their individual truth.

There are two kinds of friendship: one is genuine affection, the other is inability to refuse.