Language was invented to ask questions.

Call not that man wretched, who whatever ills he suffers, has a child to love.

Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves.

We clamor for equality chiefly in matters in which we ourselves cannot hope to obtain excellence.

Man's chief goal in life is still to become and stay human, and defend his achievements against the encroachment of nature.

It is the stretched soul that makes music, and souls are stretched by the pull of opposites-opposite bents, tastes, yearnings, loyalties. Where there is no polarity-where energies flow smoothly in one direction-there will be much doing but no music.

To make of human affairs a coherent, precise, predictable whole one must ignore or suppress man as he really is. It is by eliminating man from their equation that the makers of history can predict the future, and the writers of history can give a pattern to the past.