There are three traps that strangle philosophy: The church, the marriage bed, and the professor's chair.

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

Tolerated people are never conciliated. They live on, but the aroma of their life is lost.

We should have to abandon our vested illusions, our irrational religions and patriotisms.

Lovely promise and quick ruin are seen nowhere better than in Gothic architecture.

There is nothing sacred about convention; there is nothing sacred about primitive passions or whims; but the fact that a convention exists indicates that a way of living has been devised capable of maintaining itself.

The loftiest edifices need the deepest foundations.