Above all, the ability to feel the force of an argument apart from the substance it deals with is the strongest weapon against prejudice.

Only a great mind that is overthrown yields tragedy

Art distills sensation and embodies it with enhanced meaning in a memorable form - or else it is not art.

I once worked as a salesman and was very independent. I took orders from no one.

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.

[T]hat is the triumph of history - truth absolute is not at hand; the original with which to match the copy does not exist.