Out of man's mind in free play comes the creation Science. It renews itself, like the generations, thanks to an activity which is the best game of homo ludens: science is in the strictest and best sense a glorious entertainment.

Only a great mind that is overthrown yields tragedy

The intellectuals' chief cause of anguish are one another's works.

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

Writing, at least a craft and at its best an art, aspiring to the unique, is the most difficult to learn.

After being boxed in by man and his constructions in Europe and the East, the release into space is exhilarating. The horizon is a huge remote circle, and no hills intervene.

Education in the United States is a passion and a paradox. Millions want it, and commend it, and are busy about it. At the same time they degrade it by trying to get it free of charge and free of work.