We have need of history in its entirety, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from it.

The good is, like nature, an immense landscape in which man advances through centuries of exploration.

Better beware of notions like genius and inspiration; they are a sort of magic wand and should be used sparingly by anybody who wants to see things clearly.

The heart of man does not tolerqte an absence of the excellent and supreme.

Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.

We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not know what to create.

Triumph cannot help being cruel.

The form most contradictory to Human life that can appear among the human species is the “self-satisfied man.”

Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries. Only in proportion as we are desirous of living more do we really live.

Being an artist means ceasing to take seriously that very serious person we are when we are not an artist.