The average woman is at the head of something with which she can do as she likes; the average man has to obey orders and do nothing else.

Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal.

Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .

Real development is not leaving things behind, as on a road, but drawing life from them, as from a root.

There is no such thing as education. The thing is merely a loose phrase for the passing on to others of whatever truth or virtue we happen to have ourselves. It is typical of our time that the more doubtful we are about the value of philosophy, the more certain we are about the value of education. That is to say, the more doubtful we are about whether we have any truth, the more certain we are (apparently) that we can teach it to our children.

A man cannot be wise enough to be a great artist without being wise enough to wish to be a philosopher.

I have little doubt that when St. George had killed the dragon he was heartily afraid of the princess.