The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it.
If pain could have cured us we should long ago have been saved.
Depression is rage spread thin.
Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors.
Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself.
The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.
The diseases which destroy a man are no less natural than the instincts which preserve him.
The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a man's power to answer do not occur to him at all.
The Bible is literature, not dogma.
The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it.
I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.
Never build your emotional life on the weaknesses of others.
Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny.
Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality.
Nothing so much enhances a good as to make sacrifices for it.
Tyrants are seldom free; the cares and the instruments of their tyranny enslave them.
Music is essentially useless, as is life.
The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity.
A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted.