Art is a human activity consisting in this, that one man consciously, by means of certain external signs, hands on to others feelings he has lived through, and that other people are infected by these feelings, and also experience them.

Perhaps it is even more important to know what one should not think about than what one should think about.

As soon as man applies his intelligence to any object at all, he unfailingly destroys the object.

Knowledge is real knowledge only when it is acquired by the efforts of your intellect, not by memory

If it were not so frightening it would be amusing to observe the pride and complacency with which we, like children, take apart the watch, pull out the spring and make a toy of it, and are then surprised when the watch stops working.

There is only one time that is important -- NOW! It is the most important time because it is the only time hat we have any power.

Drama, instead of telling us the whole of a man's life, must place him in such a situation, tie such a knot, that when it is untied, the whole man is visible.