One has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual.
O scenes of the beautiful world! Never have you presented yourself to more appreciative eyes.
Never had he felt the joy of the word more sweetly, never had he known so clearly that Eros dwells in language.
My aversion from music rests on political grounds.
Love stands opposed to death. It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
Love for him, for the human body, was extremely humanitarian an interest and had more educational power than the whole teaching skills of the world!
Love as a force contributory to disease.
Life is not the means for the achievement of an esthetic ideal of perfection; on the contrary, the work is an ethical symbol of life.
Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul.
It often happens that an old family, with traditions that are entirely practical, sober and bourgeois, undergoes in its declining days a kind of artistic transfiguration.
It is not good when people no longer believe in war. Pretty soon they no longer believe in many other things which they absolutely must believe in if they are to be decent men.
It is a strange fact that freedom and equality, the two basic ideas of democracy, are to some extent contradictory. Logically considered, freedom and equality are mutually exclusive, just as society and the individual are mutually exclusive.