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

The past will not tell us what we ought to do, but... what we ought to avoid.

The metaphor is probably the most fertile power possessed by man

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

The good is, like nature, an immense landscape in which man advances through centuries of exploration.

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

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