Commonplaces are the tramways of intellectual transportation.

Being an artist means ceasing to take seriously that very serious person we are when we are not an artist.

We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes great demands on himself, and the latter who makes no demands on himself.

tragedy in the theater opens our eyes so that we can discover and appreciate the heroic in reality.

This leads us to note down in our psychological chart of the mass-man of today two fundamental traits: the free expansion of his vital desires, and, therefore, of his personality; and his radical ingratitude towards all that has made possible the ease of his existence. These traits together make up the well-known psychology of the spoilt child.

Excellence means when a man or woman asks of himself more than others do.

All life is the struggle, the effort to be itself.