Hence it happens that one takes words for concepts, and concepts for the things themselves

The thirst for vengeance was the beautiful nature which Homer imitated

Our reason arises, at the very least, from this twofold lesson of sensuous revelations and human testimonies.

A writer who is in a hurry to be understood today or tomorrow runs the danger of being misunderstood the day after tomorrow.

The farther reason looks the greater is the haze in which it loses itself.

The weakness of ourselves and of our reason makes us see flaws in beauties by making us consider everything piece by piece.

Not only the entire ability to think rests on language... but language is also the crux of the misunderstanding of reason with itself.

The product of paper and printed ink, that we commonly call the book, is one of the great visible mediators between spirit and time, and, reflecting zeitgeist, lasts as long as ore and stone.

What good to me is the festive garment of freedom when I am in a slave's smock at home?

Everything is vain and tortures the spirit instead of calming and satisfying it.

What Tarquin the Proud said in his garden with the poppy blooms was understood by the son but not by the messenger.

... life is a flickering candle we all carry around. A gust of wind, a meaningless accident, a microsecond of carelessness, and it's out. Forever.

People use alcohol for just fun. This fun then makes them use gun. Finally, it ends up with sin.

New York is great though. If you?re here and want a one of a kind souvenir be sure to take home the police sketch of your assailant.

We all look the same with our helmets on.

What's a dancer's worst enemy? Sometimes it's age, but sometimes it's the dancer themselves.

The longer and the deeper the thought, the shorter the sentence of wisdom will be.

The painter celebrates life where he finds it. His morality is the morality of enjoyment, of the continuous development of his own taste without shame or fear. It is a sort of heroism.

There's no beauty that you could perceive or create if it were not already within you.

I'm a big fan of editing and keeping only the interesting bits in.

Good writing must stay open to the questions and not fall prey to the pull of a polemic, otherwise, words simply become predictable, sentimental, and stale.