Saints cannot arise where there have been no warriors, nor philosophers where a prying beast does not remain hidden in the depths.

The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.

Art like life, should be free, since both are experimental.

To be happy you must have taken the measure of your powers, tasted the fruits of your passion, and learned your place in the world.

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

There is a prodigious selfishness in dreams: they live perfectly deaf and invulnerable amid the cries of the real world.

The soul, too has her virginity and must bleed a little before bearing fruit.