Only silence is great; all else is weakness.
I think, then, that man, after having satisfied his first longing for facts, wanted something fuller - some grouping, some adaptation to his capacity and experience, of the links of this vast chain of events which his sight could not take in.
Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty.
The true God, the mighty God, is the God of ideas.
On the day when man told the story of his life to man, history was born.
A calm despair, without angry convulsions or reproaches directed at heaven, is the essence of wisdom.