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.

I would I could stand on a busy corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours.

A complete life may be one ending in so full an identification with the oneself that there is no self left to die.

Pessimism like calumny is easy to do, and attracts immediate attention. The gossiper and the writer may find this out soon enough, and a little encouragement from the current mood will procure them successes that bring endless imitators in their trail. On the other hand saying good things about life in general and individuals in particular and making it interesting is a serious task which few can achieve with credit.

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

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.