"Nothing now remaining that can shatter that inner unity, nothing from without clinging to the authentic man."

"Initiatory death signifies the end at once of childhood, of ignorance, and of the profane condition."

"Wealth and rapidity are what the world admires, and what everyone strives to attain."

" By exhibiting common things in an uncommon light, its flame makes manifest the living mystery and inexplicable marvel of mere existence."

"This used to be my wish: a bit of land, A house and garden with a spring at hand, And just a little wood."

"The archdemon of egoism leads us along the royal road to that ingathering which religious experience demands."

"For what did Don Quixote fight ? For Dulcinea, for glory, for life, for survival. "

"Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play."

"Going mad is the slowest and dullest business in the world."

"The wise skeptic wishes to have a near view of the best game and the chief players; what is best in the planet; art and nature..."

Animals are happy so long as they have health and enough to eat. Human beings, one feels, ought to be, but in the modern world they are not.

"No less remarkable than Balzac’s genius as a writer was his lack of aptitude for the role of society lion."

"In our day, it is difficult to imagine a world in which everybody, high and low, educated and uneducated, was preoccupied with comets,"

"America is a man-made world; moreover it is a world which man has made by means of machinery."

"Once upon a time, or rather at the very birth of time, .. Man claimed that he, too, was in some sort a deity."

"Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is, like light, the mightiest of agencies; for solitude is essential to man." Thomas De Quincy

"The present age is an age of publicity, the age of miscellaneous announcements: nothing happens but still there is instant publicity."

"On his way home from the high school, Pyotr Demyanitch went into a general shop and bought a mouse-trap for fifteen kopecks."

"However dreames may bee fallacious concerning outward events, yet may they bee truly significant at home..."

"Let us take a day in Balzac’s working life, a day typical of thousands."

"A spa such as this can destroy the magic and ravish the beauty of the most beautiful valley in the Black Forest."

"Tranquillity ! thou better name ⁠Than all the family of Fame !"

"As Otto Rank remarked, the neurotic is the “artiste manqué,” the artist who cannot transmute his conflicts into art."