The most vulnerable and yet most unconquerable of things is human vanity; nay, through being wounded its strength increases and can grow to giant proportions.

A matter that becomes clear ceases to concern us.--What was that god thinking who counseled, "Know thyself!" Did he perhaps mean,"Cease to concern yourself! Become objective!"--And Socrates?--And "scientific men"?

The child as a monument to the passion of two people; the will to oneness in two.

That is the most extreme form of nihilism: nothingness (the "meaningless") eternally!

You know a moment is important when it is making your mind go numb with beauty.

Science and art have that in common that everyday things seem to them new and attractive.

There is sense in hoping for recognition in a distant future only when we take it for granted that mankind will remain essentially unchanged, and that whatever is great is not for one age only but will be looked upon as great for all time.