Our vanity, our passions, our spirit of imitation, our abstract intelligence, our habits have long been at work, and it is the task of art to undo th….

The sensitiveness claimed by neurotic is matched by their egotism: they cannot abide the flaunting by others of the sufferings to which they pay an e….

For everyone who, having no artistic sense-that is to say, no submission to subjective reality-may have the knack of reasoning about art till doomsda….

Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible..

Indeed, among the lesser auxiliaries to success in love, an absence, the declining of an invitation to dinner, an unintentional, unconscious harshnes….

Similarly the men who produce works of genius are not those who live in the most delicate atmosphere, whose conversation is most brilliant, or their ….

The great quality of true art is that it rediscovers, grasps and reveals to us that reality far from where we live, from which we get farther and far….

I wished to see storms only on those coasts where they raged with most violence..

Wisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness to someone else ... Knowledge can be communicated….

All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last..

Which of course is followed by: For those who have Awareness, a hint is quite enough. For the multitudes of heedless mere knowledge is useless. Haji ….

Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces..

Even the simple act that we call "going to visit a person of our acquaintance" is in part an intellectual act. We fill the physical appearance of the….

There are people whose faces assume an unaccustomed beauty and majesty the moment they cease to look out of their eyes..

It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused..

Friendship is in the end no more than: " . . . a lie which seeks to make us believe that we are not irremediably alone.".

The reason why life may be judged to be trivial although at certain moments it seems to us so beautiful is that we form our judgment, ordinarily, not….

The most familiar precepts are not always the truest..

Most of our faculties lie dormant because they can rely upon Habit, which knows what there is to be done and has no need of their services..

It is only with the passions of others that we are ever really familiar, and what we come to discover about our own can only be learned from them..

And indeed when we are no longer in love with women whom we meet after many years, is there not the abyss of death between them and ourselves, just a….