You shall love your crooked neighbour, with your crooked heart.

Literary confessors are contemptible, like beggars who exhibit their sores for money, but not so contemptible as the public that buys their books.

A professor is someone who talks in someone else's sleep.

Precisely because we do not communicate by singing, a song can be out of place but not out of character; it is just as credible that a stupid person should sing beautifully as that a clever person should do so.

Had Greek civilization never existed ... we would never have become fully conscious.

Learn from your dreams what you lack.

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.