If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.

A man’s dying is more the survivors’ affair than his own.

I don't think anyone is thinking long-term now.

No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.

One must die to life in order to be utterly a creator.

Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.

Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.

He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer.

A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

Distance in a straight line has no mystery. The mystery is in the sphere.

Only love, and not reason, yields kind thoughts.

It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.

A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.

Art is the funnel, as it were, through which spirit is poured into life.

War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.

A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.

Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.

Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul.

Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.