What is the use of theorizing as to wherein lies the charm that moves us?

We shall find in our troubled hearts, where discord reigns, two needs which seem at variance, but which merge, as I think, in a common source - the love of the true, and the love of the fabulous.

But it is the province of religion, of philosophy, of pure poetry only, to go beyond life, beyond time, into eternity.

The true God, the mighty God, is the God of ideas.

Of what use is the memory of facts, if not to serve as an example of good or of evil?

To hold power has always meant to manipulate idiots and circumstances; and those circumstances and those idiots, tossed together, bring about those coincidences to which even the greatest men confess they owe most of their fame

What is the use of theorizing as to wherein lies the charm that moves us?