The relation of faith between subject and object is unique in every case. Hundreds may believe, but each has to believe by himself.

Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self.

It is nonsense to speak of 'higher' and 'lower' pleasures. To a hungry man it is, rightly, more important that he eat than that he philosophize.

Aside from purely technical analysis, nothing can be said about music, except when it is bad; when it is good, one can only listen and be grateful.

One cannot review a bad book without showing off.

The parlour cars and Pullmans are packed also with scented assassins, salad-eaters who murder on milk.

You will be a poet because you will always be humiliated.