Has the world ever been changed by anything save the thought and its magic vehicle the Word?
I love and reverence the Word, the bearer of the spirit, the tool and gleaming ploughshare of progress.
Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.
But my deepest and most secret love belongs to the fair-haired and the blue-eyed, the bright children of life, the happy, the charming and the ordinary.
Culture and possessions, there is the bourgeoisie for you.
Democracy is timelessly human, and timelessness always implies a certain amount of potential youthfulness.
Disease makes men more physical, it leaves them nothing but body.
Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.
Human reason needs only to will more strongly than fate, and she is fate.
For I must tell you that we artists cannot tread the path of Beauty without Eros keeping company with us and appointing himself as our guide.
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.
For the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over his thoughts.
For to be poised against fatality, to meet adverse conditions gracefully, is more than simple endurance; it is an act of aggression, a positive triumph.
Literature... is the union of suffering with the instinct for form.
It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.