I shall need to sleep three weeks on end to get rested from the rest I've had.
One always has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual.
All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.
A man lives not only his personal life, as an individual, but also, consciously or unconsciously, the life of his epoch and his contemporaries.
He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer.
Democracy is timelessly human, and timelessness always implies a certain amount of potential youthfulness.
A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.
For the myth is the foundation of life; it is the timeless schema, the pious formula into which life flows when it reproduces its traits out of the unconscious.
What is uttered is finished and done with.
The writer's joy is the thought that can become emotion, the emotion that can wholly become a thought.
An art whose medium is language will always show a high degree of critical creativeness, for speech is itself a critique of life: it names, it characterizes, it passes judgment, in that it creates.
I love and reverence the Word, the bearer of the spirit, the tool and gleaming ploughshare of progress.
The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.
Has the world ever been changed by anything save the thought and its magic vehicle the Word?
Culture and possessions, there is the bourgeoisie for you.
Disease makes men more physical, it leaves them nothing but body.
Human reason needs only to will more strongly than fate, and she is fate.