The highest wisdom has but one science-the science of the whole-the science explaining the whole creation and man's place in it.

The subject of history is the life of peoples and of humanity. To catch and pin down in words--that is, to describe directly the life, not only of humanity, but even of a single people, appears to be impossible.

Music is the shorthand of emotion.

Before we can study the central issues of life today, we must destroy the prejudices and fallacies born of previous centuries.

He had the unlucky capacity many men have of seeing and believing in the possibility of goodness and truth, but of seeing the evil and falsehood of life too clearly to take any serious part in it.

We love people not so much for the good they've done us, as for the good we've done them.

There was no solution, save that universal solution which life gives to all questions, even the most complex and insolvable: One must live in the needs of the day--that is, forget oneself.