An artist is he who has his center within himself. He who lacks this must choose a particular leader and mediator outside of himself, not forever, however, but only at first. For man cannot exist without a living center, and if he does not have it within himself, he may seek it only in a human being. Only a human being and his center can stimulate and awaken that of another.

A family can develop only with a loving woman as its center.

Plato's philosophy is a dignified preface to future religion.

The whole history of modern poetry is a continuous commentary on the short text of philosophy: every art should become science, and every science should become art; poetry and philosophy should be united.

No idea is isolated, but is only what it is among all ideas.

One can only become a philosopher, but not be one. As one believes he is a philosopher, he stops being one.

He who does not become familiar with nature through love will never know her.