If people lacked the capacity to receive the thoughts of the men who preceded them and to pass on to others their own thoughts, men would be like wild beasts. And if men lacked this other capacity of being infected by art, people would be almost more savage still, and, above all, more separated from and more hostile to one another. Therefore the activity of art is a most important one, as important as the activity of speech itself and as generally diffused.

She had no need to ask why he had come. She knew as certainly as if he had told her that he was here to be where she was.

The best method for a given teacher is the one which is most familiar to the teacher.

I say that the God who created the world in six days and who sent His son, and also his son himself, are not God, but that God is the one existing, incomparable good, the beginning of everything.

All that day she had had the feeling that she was playing in the theatre with actors better than herself and that her poor playing spoiled the whole thing.

Violence produces only something resembling justice, but it distances people from the possibility of living justly, without violence.

The more we live by our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of life.