One is fruitful only at the cost of being rich in contradictions.

Those who know that they are profound strive for clarity. Those who would like to seem profound to the crowd strive for obscurity.

Most people are far too much occupied with themselves to be malicious.

What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind?--They are the irrefutable errors of mankind.

Human existence basically is──a never to be completed imperfect tense.

The beauty of nature, like every other kind of beauty, is quite jealous; it demands that one serve it alone.