We are so conceited and so unproud.

Man has little needs and deeper needs. We have fallen into the mistake of living from our little needs till we have almost lost our deeper needs in a sort of madness.

But I like the feel of men on things, while they're alive. There's a feel of men about trucks, because they've been handled with men's hands, all of them.

Any inhibition must be wrong, since inevitably in the end it causes neurosis and insanity.

Europe is, perhaps, the least worn-out of the continents, because it is the most lived in. A place that is lived in lives.

It's bad taste to be wise all the time, like being at a perpetual funeral.

The only true aristocracy is that of consciousness.