It seemed incredible to me that day without premonitions or symbols should be the one of my inexorable death.

Every man should be capable of all ideas and I understand that in the future this will be the case.

I reflected that everything happens to a man precisely, precisely now. Centuries of centuries and only in the present do things happen; countless men in the ai…

There is no exercise of the intellect which is not, in the final analysis, useless. A philosophical doctrine begins as a plausible description of the universe;…

Clevinger was dead. That was the basic flaw in his philosophy.

I seem but a dead man held on end To sink down soon.... O you could not know That such swift fleeing No soul foreseeing - Not even I - would undo me so!

Fate sits on these dark battlements and frowns, And as the portal opens to receive me, A voice in hollow murmurs through the courts Tells of a nameless deed.