Nature... is nothing but the inner voice of self-interest.

Strangeness is a necessary ingredient in beauty.

Nothing can be done except little by little.

To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by every means available to the arts.

God is the only being who, in order to reign, doesn't even need to exist.

Dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music

The man who says his evening prayer is a captain posting his sentinels. He can sleep.

The devil's finest trick is to persuade you that he does not exist.

One should always be drunk. That's all that matters...But with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you chose. But get drunk.

A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.

Music fathoms the sky.

When someone blushes, doesn't that mean 'yes'?

Whenever ego suffers from fear of death & your practice turns to seeing impermanence, ego settles down.

Half the time I read Hayek's The Sensory Order with amazement at the extent of his reading and comprehension. He is right most of the time.

Time and again we see leaders and members of religions incite aggression, fanaticism, hate, and xenophobia - even inspire and legitimate violent and bloody conflicts.

I would desire for a friend the son who never resisted the tears of his mother.

I'm not a pessimist, even though I do think awful things are going to happen.

If mutual respect does derive from unilateral respect, it does so by opposition.

I've never done a trendy diet or subscribed to a fashionable health fad in my life.

The idea of beauty does not descend into matter unless this is prepared as carefully as possible. This preparation consists of three things: arrangement, measure, and aspect or form.

Pin your faith to no ones sleeves, haven't you two eyes of your own.