Men play at tragedy because they do not believe in the reality of the tragedy which is actually being staged in the civilised world

It is not obligatory for a generation to have great men.

All we are given is possibilities — to make ourselves one thing or another.

The trend towards pure art betrays not arrogance, as is often thought, but modesty. Art that has rid itself of human pathos is a thing without consequence.

I am myself and what is around me, and if I do not save it, it shall not save me.

A revolution only lasts fifteen years, a period which coincides with the effectiveness of a generation.

Thinking is the desire to gain reality by means of ideas.