We are pantheists when we study nature, polytheists when we write poetry, monotheists in our morality.

Once you have missed the first buttonhole, you'll never manage to button up.

Few people have the imagination for reality.

The modern age has a false sense of superiority, because of the great mass of data at its disposal. But the valid criterion of distinction is rather the extent to which man knows how to form and master the material at his command.

If you want to get pleasure out of life, you must attach value to the world.

Voluntary dependence is the wonderful form of existence, and how could that be possible without love?

Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing.