The human mind has first to construct forms, independently, before we can find them in things.

Measured objectively, what a man can wrest from Truth by passionate striving is utterly infinitesimal. But the striving frees us from the bonds of the self and makes us comrades of those who are the best and the greatest.

Everybody acts not only under external compulsion but also in accordance with inner necessity.

When the solution is simple, God is answering.

The world is in greater peril from those who tolerate or encourage evil than from those who actually commit it.

The greatest activity of which man is capable: Opening up yet another fragment of the frontier of beauty.

[I] must seek in the stars that which was denied [to me] on earth.