The average European does not seem to feel free until he succeeds in enslaving and oppressing others.

I wonder whether art has a higher function than to make me feel, appreciate, and enjoy natural objects for their art value?

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.

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.

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.

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

Not what man knows but what man feels, concerns art. All else is science.