Facts as facts do not always create a spirit of reality, because reality is a spirit.

The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.

Whether a man chooses to tell the truth in long sentences or short jokes is a problem analogous to whether he chooses to tell the truth in French or in German.

somehow one must love the world without being worldly.

Teach to the young, men's enduring truths, and let the learned amuse themselves with their passing errors.

In a world where everything is ridiculous, nothing can be ridiculed. You cannot unmask a mask.

The modern world is full of the old Christian virtues gone mad. The virtues have gone mad because they have been isolated from each other and are wandering alone. Thus some scientists care for truth; and their truth is pitiless. Thus some humanitarians only care for pity; and their pity (I am sorry to say) is often untruthful.