As a human being, one has been endowed with just enough intelligence to be able to see clearly how utterly inadequate that intelligence is when confronted with what exists.

The ability to portray people in still life and in motion requires the highest measure of intuition and talent.

Don't listen to the person who has the answers; listen to the person who has the questions.

The tragedy of life is what dies in the hearts and souls of people while they live.

Although I have been prevented by outward circumstances from observing a strictly vegetarian diet, I have long been an adherent to the cause in principle. Besides agreeing with the aims of vegetarianism for aesthetic and moral reasons, it is my view that a vegetarian manner of living by its purely physical effect on the human temperament would most beneficially influence the lot of mankind.

Every reminiscence is colored by the way things are today, and therefore by a delusive point of view.

When the number of factors coming into play in a phenomenological complex is too large scientific method in most cases fails. One need only think of the weather, in which case the prediction even for a few days ahead is impossible.