To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.

The great mystery is not that we should have been thrown down here at random between the profusion of matter and that of the stars; it is that from our very prison we should draw, from our own selves, images powerful enough to deny our own nothingness.

A break in the established order is never the work of chance. It is the outcome of a man's resolve to turn life to account.

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

The next century's task will be to rediscover its gods.

Every creation is, at its root, the struggle between potential form and imitated form.

There is always a need for intoxication: China has opium, Islam has hashish, the West has woman.