“Recreation", which is to say: a refreshing exercise of the organism, because it was in immediate danger of overindulging itself in the uninterrupted monotony of daily life and growing indifferent.

All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.

Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject — the actual enemy is the unknown.

Myth is the foundation of life. It is the timeless pattern, the religious formula to which life shapes itself.

Paradox is the poisonous flower of quietism, the iridescent surface of the rotting mind, the greatest depravity of all.

Beauty can pierce one like a pain.

Solitude gives birth to the original in us.

What a wonderful phenomenon it is, carefully considered, when the human eye, that jewel of organic structures, concentrates its moist brilliance on another human creature.

Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunderstorm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols.

A man's dying is more the survivor's affair than his own.