"When he was asked what advantage he had ever derived from philosophy, he replied: “The advantage of being able to converse with myself"."

[Extracts] "Time makes even bronze grow old : but thy glory, Diogenes, all eternity will never destroy..."

"When I have set myself now and then to consider the various distractions of men, the toils and dangers to which they expose themselves..."

[Extracts] “Art is the quest of our self that drives us along the eternal and never-ending journey we must all make.” ― Max Beckmann

"Life, to us, that means constantly transforming all that we are into light and flame..."

"When weary with the long day's care And earthly change from pain to pain And lost, and ready to despair Thy kind voice calls me back again"

"A slow and mournful chant arose, the "De Profundis"."

[Extract] "Charles Baudelaire was then an almost unknown genius, preparing himself in the shadow for the light to come..."

"There are times when sorrow seems to me to be the only truth."

"When Narcissus died, the pool of his pleasure changed from a cup of sweet waters into a cup of salt tears."

"If someone asked me what I deserve, I would say in all honesty before God that I deserve hard labor. Not because of Tiflis, however..."

[Text] "Vanka Zhukov, a boy of nine, who had been for three months apprenticed to Alyahin the shoemaker, was sitting up on Christmas Eve..."

[Letters] "O my Bergson, you are a magician, and your book is a marvel, a real wonder in the history of philosophy..."

[Essay] "Birds are naturally the most joyful creatures in the world...."

"... the old master to whom one might well apply the words he himself used to describe Pissarro: humble and colossal."

"Cant, guile, hypocrisy, front, face, playing a game, trying to impress in conventional ways: these are all absent in themselves."

"Every person is, in part, 'his own project', and makes himself."

"Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being." William James

[Book] "Today, mankind believes itself able to do without Art. It does not wish to meditate, to contemplate, to dream..."

“For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers..."

"So what can the anxiety-ridden person learn from the lilies ?"