There is, in short, no great idea that stupidity could not put to its own uses [....] The truth by comparison, has only one appearance and only one p….

... the genius never makes anything new, but always something that is just different, and the average talents provide him the possibility within whic….

Mathematics is the source of a wicked intellect that, while making man the lord of the earth, also makes him the slave of the machine..

True' and 'false' are the evasions of people who never want to arrive at a decision. Truth is something without end..

Progress would be wonderful - if only it would stop..

One does what one is; one becomes what one does..

Layer by layer art strips life bare..

He who is allowed to do as he likes will soon run his head into a brick wall out of sheer frustration..

The truth is not a crystal that can be slipped into one's pocket, but an endless current into which one falls headlong..

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. ….

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….

Philosophers are people who do violence, but have no army at their disposal, and so subjugate the world by locking it into a system..

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….

Is not art a tool we employ to peel the kitsch off life? Layer by layer art strips life bare. The more abstract it gets, the more transparent the air….

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….

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 ….

If there is a sense of reality, there must also be a sense of possibility..

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 ….

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 ….

Anything that endures over time sacrifices its ability to make an impression..