The tendency to gather and to breed philosophers in universities does not belong to ages of free and humane reflection: it is scholastic and proper to the Middle Ages and to Germany.

Nothing is really so poor and melancholy as art that is interested in itself and not in its subject.

Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.

The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it.

Bid, then, the tender light of faith to shine By which alone the mortal heart is led Unto the thinking of the thought divine.

All beauties are to be honored, but only one embraced.

The one who does not remember history is bound to live through it again