It is a law of nature that we defend ourselves from one affection only by means of another..

Order always weighs on the individual. Disorder makes him wish for the police or for death. These are two extreme circumstances in which human nature….

Two dangers constantly threaten the world: order and disorder..

A limited vocabulary, but one with which you can make numerous combinations, is better than thirty thousand words that only hamper the action of the ….

My soul is nothing now but the dream dreamt by matter struggling with itself!.

The most ridiculous were those who, on their own authority, made themselves the judges and justices of the tribe. They seemed never to suspect that o….

A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is ….

The wind is rising ... we must attempt to live..

Latent in every man is a venom of amazing bitterness, a black resentment; something that curses and loathes life, a feeling of being trapped, of havi….

The dog has made man their God, if the dog was an atheist, it would be perfect..

...in song the words tend to lose their significance, do often lose it, while at the other extreme, in current prose it is the musical value that ten….

Every man expects some miracle — either from his mind or from his body or from someone else or from events..

To enter into your own mind you need to be armed to the teeth..

Though completely armed with knowledge and endowed with power, we are blind and impotent in a world we have equipped and organized-a world of which w….

The history of thought may be summed up in these words: it is absurd by what it seeks and great by what it finds..

A man who is 'of sound mind' is one who keeps the inner madman under lock and key..

In the physical world, one cannot increase the size or quantity of anything without changing its quality. Similar figures exist only in pure geometry..

Stupidity is not my strong suit..

Fidelity to meaning alone in translation is a kind of betrayal..

Oh, hasten not this loving act, Rapture where self and not-self meet: My life has been the awaiting you, Your footfall was my own heart's beat..

We are wont to condemn self-love; but what we really mean to condemn is contrary to self-love. It is that mixture of selfishness and self-hate that p….