The line between what is known scientifically and what has to be assumed in order to support knowledge is impossible to draw. Memory itself is an internal rumour.

What is false in the science of facts may be true in the science of values.

When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons are always different.

Towers in a modern town are a frill and a survival; they seem like the raised hands of the various churches, afraid of being overlooked, and saying to the forgetful public, Here I am! Or perhaps they are rival lightning rods, saying to the emanations of divine grace, "Please strike here!

Reason in my philosophy is only a harmony among irrational impulses.

It is right to prefer our own country to all others, because we are children and citizens before we can be travellers or philosophers.

The theater, for all its artifices, depicts life in a sense more truly than history.