There can be only one permanent revolution- a moral one: the regeneration of the inner man.

Until you do what you believe in, you don't know whether you believe it or not.

To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it.

We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.

The business of art lies just in this, -- to make that understood and felt which, in the form of an argument, might be incomprehensible and inaccessible.

I do value my work awfully; but in reality only consider this: all this world of ours is nothing but a speck of mildew, which has grown up on a tiny planet. And for us to suppose we can have something great - ideas, work - it's all dust and ashes.

But our idea is that the wolves should be fed and the sheep kept safe.