Whatever a human being makes and makes live, it lives because of the life he puts into it.

Men are not free when they're doing just what they like. Men are only free when they're doing what the deepest self likes. And there is getting down to the deepest self! It takes some diving.

There is no such thing as liberty. You only change one sort of domination for another. All we can do is to choose our master.

You've got to know yourself so you can at last be yourself.

I should think the American admiration of five-minute tourists has done more to kill the sacredness of old European beauty and aspiration than multitudes of bombs would have done.

The pyramids of Egypt will not last a moment compared to the daisy.

You don't learn algebra with your blessed soul. Can't you look at it with your clear simple wits?