Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.

I have always been - I think any student of history almost inevitably is - a cheerful pessimist.

Time and rest are needed for absorption. Psychologists confirm that it is really in the summer that our muscles learn to skate and in the winter, how to swim.

The sole justification of teaching, of the school itself, is that the student comes out of it able to do something he could not do before. I say do and not know, because knowledge that doesn't lead to doing something new or doing something better is not knowledge at all.

To denounce does not free the self from what it hates, any more than ignoring the past shuts off its influence.

When people accept futility and the absurd as normal, the culture is decadent.

The mind tends to run along the groove of one's intention and overlook the actual expression.