In a world in which everything is subject to the passing of time, art alone is both subject to time and yet victorious over it.

Since 1789 history has had a new perspective, revolution being a successful revolt, and revolt a revolution that has failed.

If man is not ready to risk his life, where is his dignity?

The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself.

Man knows that the world is not made on a human scale; and he wishes that it were.

Culture is the sum of all the forms of art, of love, and of thought, which, in the coarse or centuries, have enabled man to be less enslaved

War puts its questions stupidly, peace mysteriously.