Swiss writer.
"He is best known for his "Journal" which is considered a masterpiece of self-analysis."
Wisdom consists in rising superior both to madness and to common sense, and in lending oneself to the universal delusion without becoming its dupe."
"Let mystery have its place in you; do not be always turning up your whole soil with the ploughshare of self-examination, but leave a little fallow corner in your heart ready for any seed the winds may bring . . ."
"The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides."
The great artist is the simplifier.
A thousand things advance; nine hundred and ninety-nine retreat: that is progress.