Using an artful tool does not make one a dry technician. It seems to me that people that are anxious about our technical advancement, confuse means and ends. Naturally a person that only works for material gain will not harvest something that is worth living for. But the machine is not an end in itself. The airplane is not an end. It is a tool. Just like the plough.

If Someone wants a sheep, then that means that he exists.

Action and personal happiness have no truck with each other; they are eternally at war.

Good taste" is a virtue of the keepers of museums. If you scorn bad taste, you will have neither painting nor dancing, neither palaces nor gardens.

Once we are bound together to our brothers by a common good that is outside us, then we can breathe. Experience teaches us that love is not to gaze at one another but to gaze in the same direction. There is no comradeship except through unity on the same rope, climbing towards the same peak.

We live not by things, but by the meaning of things. It is needful to transmit the passwords from generation to generation.

C'est véritablement utile puisque c'est joli. It is truly useful since it is beautiful.