A poor American feels guilty at being poor, but less guilty than an American rentier who has inherited wealth but is doing nothingto increase it; what can the latter do but take to drink and psychoanalysis?

History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions; the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology.

Far from his illness The wolves ran on through the evergreen forests, The peasant river was untempted by the fashionable quays; By mourning tongues The death of the poet was kept from his poems.

It's better to say, 'I'm suffering,' than to say, 'This landscape is ugly.

Art is born of humiliation.

Most people call something profound, not because it is near some important truth but because it is distant from ordinary life. Thus, darkness is profound to the eye, silence to the ear; what-is-not is the profundity of what-is.

A god who is both self-sufficient and content to remain so could not interest us enough to raise the question of his existence.