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

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

Art is mind and heart and touch as much and more than it is mere instrument, technique - without which however it cannot exist at all.

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

German is of stone, limestone, pudding stone, marble, granite even, and so to a considerable degree is English, whereas French is bronze and gives out a metallic resonance with tones that neither German nor English tolerate.

Psychoanalysts are not occupied with the minds of their patients; they do not believe in the mind but in a cerebral intestine.

Miracles happen to those who believe in them. Otherwise why does not the Virgin Mary appear to Lamaists, Mohammedans, or Hindus who have never heard of her.