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.

As I got warmed up, and felt perfectly at home in talk, I heard myself boasting, lying, exaggerating. Oh, not deliberately, far from it. It would be unconvivial and dull to stop and arrest the flow of talk, and speak only after carefully considering whether I was telling the truth.

I never felt that there was anything enviable in youth. I cannot recall that any of us, as youths, admired our condition to excess or had a desire to prolong it.

No artifact is a work of art if it does not help to humanize us. Without art...our world would have remained a jungle.

There are two futures, the future of desire and the future of fate, and man's reason has never learnt to separate them.

[Describing his house:] It is a library with living rooms attached.

International affairs will be placed on a better footing when it is understood that there is no way of punishing a people for the crimes of its rulers.