Homo sapiens, the only creature endowed with reason, is also the only creature to pin its existence on things unreasonable.

There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.

To ease another's burden, help to carry it.

All the translations of a poem in all possible languages may add nuance to nuance and, by a kind of mutual retouching, by correcting one another, may give an increasingly faithful picture of the poem they translate, yet they will never give the inner meaning of the original.

Is it astonishing that, like children trying to catch smoke by closing their hands, philosophers so often see the object they would grasp fly before them?

Art has no other object than to set aside the symbols of practical utility, the generalities that are conventionally and socially accepted, everything in fact which masks reality from us, in order to set us face to face with reality itself.

Sex-appeal is the keynote of our whole civilization.