If you love life you also love the past, because it is the present as it has survived in memory." Translation by David Downie

If you love life you also love the past, because it is the present as it has survived in memory." Translation by David Downie

For my part I have sought liberty more than power, and power only because it can lead to freedom. What interested me was not a philosophy of the free man (all who try that have proved tiresome), but a technique: I hoped to discover the hinge where our will meets and moves with destiny, and where discipline strengthens, instead of restraining, our nature.

A touch of madness is, I think, almost always necessary for constructing a destiny.

The written word has taught me to listen to the human voice, much as the great unchanging statues have taught me to appreciate bodily motions.

All happiness is a work of art: the smallest error falsifies it, the slightest hesitation alters it, the least heaviness spoils it, the slightest stupidity brutalizes it.

age means nothing. If anything I feel that I'm still a child: eternity and childhood are my ages.