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

It is terrible when people do not know God, but it is worse when people identify as God what is not God.

But Christ could certainly not have established the Church. That is, the institution we now call by that name, for nothing resembling our present conception of the Church-with its sacraments, its hierarchy, and especially its claim to infallibility-is to be found in Christ's words or in the conception of the men of his time.

The most mentally deranged people are certainly those who see in others indications of insanity they do not notice in themselves.

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

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.

I imagine, joking apart, that to know love, one must make mistakes and then correct them.