Great art is the expression of a solution of the conflict between the demands of the world without and that within.

Tell one your thoughts, but beware of two. All know what is known to three

Reality has actually very little to do with truth; there is no necessary connection between the two.

None so good that he has no faults, None so wicked that he is worth naught.

The anthropologists are busy, indeed, and ready to transport us back into the savage forest where all human things ... have their beginnings; but the seed never explains the flower.

When the world is storm-driven and bad things happen, then we need to know all the strong fortresses of the spirit which men have built through the ages.

It was a Roman who said it was sweet to die for one's country. The Greeks never said it was sweet to die for anything. They had no vital lies.