Man would be “otherwise.” That’s the essence of the specifically human.

Life is long and art a toy.

Todo necio confunde valor y precio.

I. Don’t trace out your profile – forget your side view – all that is outer stuff. II. Look for your other half who walks always next to you and tends to be who you aren’t.

Man’s passion for truth is such that he will welcome the bitterest of all postulates so long as it strikes him as true.

The absence of vices adds so little to the sum of one’s virtues.

Last night as I was sleeping, I dreamt – marvellous error! – That it was God I had here inside my heart.

Death is something we shouldn’t fear because, while we are, death isn’t, and when death is, we aren’t.

My philosophy is fundamentally sad, but I’m not a sad man, and I don’t believe I sadden anyone else.

By walking one makes the road, and upon glancing behind sees the path.