I only believe in culture. Culture, if we think about it more deeply, is not based on curiosity, but on the love of perfection; culture is the knowledge of perfection. Cultured people are the true apostles of equality.
The truth freezes on the lips of the dying.
A critic would be useful to a practical man only if he were not too indulgent with his tastes, with his vision of the world.
The critical capacities are inferior to the creative ones... The expression of the power of creation, of the free creative energy, is the highest function of man.
Culture is an aspiration towards melodic harmony and light, it is important that both harmony and light prevail.
Culture is an aspiration to perfection by knowing what worries us most, what we think and talk about...
I'm over thirty years old and I've already covered myself in ice three-quarters of the way.
We forget out of necessity, and not out of desire.
In the boundless ocean of slander called "history," one wave, even a large one, does not count.
We spend three quarters of our lives on behavioral science.
Our religion is the religion of inequality.
Inequality naturally leads to the mercantilism of the upper class, the vulgarization of the middle class, and the ferocity of the lower class.
A nation is truly great not when it consists of a large number of thinking, free, and energetic men, but when thought, freedom, and energy are subservient to an ideal higher than that of the average member of society.
In the human soul there are two principles: the sense of measure and the sense of limitlessness. Ancient Hellas is the sense of measure. The pathos of the romantic and the creative fire of our time is the sense of boundlessness. We want to recreate the whole Earth, and we will recreate it, so that everyone on Earth will be beautiful strong and happy. This is quite possible, for Man is the Sun, and his feelings are planets.
Right now, when we are breathing here, there are people who are suffocating.
In souls there is all that is in heaven, and much more.
There is an amazing state of mental tension, when a person is stronger, more intelligent, more beautiful than himself... Such states, which bring us closer to the transcendent worlds, everyone has, to somehow confirm the great principle of the ultimate equality of all souls. But to some these states visit perhaps once in their lives, to others they have a stronger or weaker influence, but almost constantly, and there are the chosen ones to whom it is given that every midnight they see ghosts, and at every sunrise to hear the commotion of new lives.
Hysteria is an excessive sensitivity, and what in the world of medicine is a disease to be cured, in the world of art appears to be a bright flower.
The feast of the heart is the joy of loving someone. The feast of the heart is to unexpectedly find a treasure. And it is also a celebration of the heart to find yourself in the other, to see the best in your heart reflected in the mirror of the other's heart. And tearing down the partition wall is a joy of the soul, sharp as a diamond, it is a true celebration of the heart.
Each soul has many faces, in each man are hidden many people, and many of these, forming one person, must be thrown mercilessly into the fire. You have to be ruthless with yourself. Only then can you really achieve something.
There is more life in the quickly withering flower petals than in the millennial weight of granite constructions.
In an exalted state, people are able to do what was previously impossible for them. The passions work miracles, that is, actions which, in an ordinary, impassive state, are beyond the powers of the organs.
Belief in immortality indicates nothing but the truth and the fact that man, losing his bodily existence, does not also lose his spiritual existence in the memory and hearts of living men.
The will is a tendency toward happiness.
Every god is a being created by the imagination, an image created after man, but an image that man places outside himself and presents as an independent being.
Where morality is based on theology and law on the decisions of God, there the most immoral and shameful things can be justified and substantiated.
Where eyes and hands begin, gods end.
Where there is not enough space for a capacity to manifest, there is no such capacity either.
Where there is no aspiration for happiness, there is no aspiration.
The aspiration to happiness is the aspiration of all aspirations.