Every soul is judged by the breadth of its aspirations.
The main dignity of a writer is that he knows what not to write.
Women don't really trust men in general and they trust specific men too much.
When you get old, habits become tyrants.
It used to be thought that sugar cane was the only source of sugar, but now sugar is extracted from almost everything. It will be the same with poetry: we will take it out of everything, because it is everywhere and in everything. There is not an atom of matter that does not contain poetry.
I love to love, I love to hate.
We have lost faith even in vices.
Perseverance eases our lot.
We cannot live by inspiration. Pegasus often walks at a walk, not a gallop. The trick is to get him to match his gait with yours.
Loneliness cannot be filled with memories, they only make it worse.
Poetry is a special way of perceiving the outside world, a special organ that sifts the material and transfigures it without changing it.
To repent is good, but not to do evil is even better.
The subject is not chosen. This is the secret of the masterpiece, that the subject is a reflection of the writer's temperament.
What is misunderstood is often tried to be explained with the help of words that we do not understand.
What is well written never bores us. Style is life itself, it is the blood of thought.
Precision of thought guarantees precision of expression.
Form and content are two categories that never exist separately from each other.
The Master must be present in his creation, just as God is present in the Universe: invisible, and everywhere.
The more humanity progresses, the more scientific art will become.
To have talent, you must be sure that you can master it.
I would die laughing at how one man judges another, if this sight did not move me to pity.
Look carefully at the phenomenon and you will see that it is the butt of another, deeper phenomenon.
Dialectic is neither the beginning nor the end; basically, it is a means, a way.
Culture is that rope that you can throw to a drowning person and with which you can strangle your neighbor. The development of culture causes benefits for both good and bad.
Increases gentleness - increases cruelty, increases altruism - increases selfishness. But it does not happen that together with the increase of goodness, evil decreases; but, rather, as in the evolution of electricity: every occurrence of positive electricity goes parallel to the negative. That is why the struggle between good and evil does not disappear, but on the contrary worsens: it cannot end and it seems that it will never end.
The very appearance of the miracle is already miraculous.
Three times more criminal is a rapacious civilization, which knows neither pity nor love for a creature, but seeks only to take advantage of that creature, being driven not by a desire to help nature show its hidden culture, but of external forms and for insistent, violent and conditioned external purposes.
Philosophy is great and valuable not in itself, but as a finger pointing to Christ and a life in Christ.
Man is part of the world, but a man is as complex as the world. The world is part of man, but the world is as complex as the people.
Man is an infinity.