The appreciation of the merits of art (of the emotions it conveys) depends upon an understanding of the meaning of life...

In education, once more, the chief things are equality and freedom.

Some mathematician, I believe, has said that true pleasure lies not in the discovery of truth, but in the search for it.

To evoke in oneself a feeling one has once experienced, and having evoked it in oneself, then by means of movements, lines, colors, sounds, or forms expressed through words, so to convey this so that others may experience the same feeling - this is the activity of art.

Faith is the sense of life, that sense by virtue of which man does not destroy himself, but continues to live on. It is the force whereby we live.

When it is impossible to stretch the very elastic threads of historical ratiocination any farther, when actions are clearly contrary to all that humanity calls right or even just, the historians produce a saving conception of 'greatness.' 'Greatness,' it seems, excludes the standards of right and wrong. For the 'great' man nothing is wrong, there is no atrocity for which a 'great' man can be blamed.

In order to obtain and hold power, a man must love it.