...love must be regarded as one of the religious and dangerous experiences, because it lifts people out of the arms of reason and sets them afloat wi….

Time, which runs through the world like an endless tinsel thread, seemed to pass through the centre of this room and through the centre of these peop….

In their field they [mathematicians] do what we ought to be doing in ours. Therein lies the significant lesson ... of their existence. They are an an….

the restricting of intellectual and spiritual needs to the mania of progress.

Clothes, when abstracted from the flow of present time and their transmogrifying function on the human body, and seen as forms in themselves, are str….

What is perceptible to one’s mistrust is the cut-and-dried way that life is divided up and the ready-made form it assumes, the ever-recurring samenes….

Writing [for the novelist] is not an activity, but a condition. That is why one simply can't resume the work when one has a job and a free half-day. ….

You proclaim that one should die for the highest virtues, because you take it for granted that nobody's been living for them, not even for a single h….

The thought is not something that observes an inner event, but, rather it is this inner event itself. We do not reflect on something, but, rather, so….

To love something as an artist ... means to be shaken not by its ultimate value or lack of value, but by a side of it that suddenly opens up. Where a….

It will always be the same possibilities, in sum or on the average, that go on repeating themselves until a man comes along who does not value the ac….

and while faith based on theological reasoning is today universally engaged in a bitter struggle with doubt and resistance from the prevailing brand ….

With its claims to profundity, boldness and originality, thinking still limits itself provisionally to the exclusively rational and scientific. ... A….

The secret of a good librarian is that he never reads anything more of the literature in his charge than the title and the table of contents. Anyone ….

... all professional ideologies are high-minded. Hunters, for instance, would not dream of calling themselves the butchers of the woods..

Every day there comes a moment when a person lays his hands in his lap and all his busyness collapses like ashes. The work accomplished is, from the ….

A man who wants the truth becomes a scientist; a man who wants to give free play to his subjectivity may become a writer; but what should a man do wh….

It was the tenderness mingled with melancholy which we bring to a time that belongs irrevocably to the past, when a pale, delicate shadow rises from ….

Stupidity is active in every direction, and can dress up in all the clothes of truth. Truth, on the other hand, has for every occasion only one dress….

What is the use of good painting? We want a spell cast upon the optical part of our existence! We seldom really see the world, but when we do, we bec….

His answers were quite often like that. When she spoke of beauty, he spoke of the fatty tissue supporting the epidermis. When she mentioned love, he ….