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

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.

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

Only love, and not reason, yields kind thoughts.

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

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.

Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.

One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.

Nonsense and beauty have close connections.