Art, in the widest sense of the word, is the instrument Hellenism has used and would use for that purpose. All the arts, poetry, music, ritual, the visual arts, the theatre, must work singly and together to create the most comprehensive art of all, a humanized society, and its masterpiece, the free man.

Government is the art of the momentary feasible, of the least bad attainable, and not of the rationally most desirable.

You can parody and make fun of almost anything, but that does not turn the universe into a caricature.

Genius is the capacity for productive reaction against one's training.

From childhood on I have had the dream of life lived as a sacrament... the dream implied taking life ritually as something holy.

We usually meet all of our relatives only at funerals where somebody always observes: "Too bad we can't get together more often".

Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.