Great things are accomplished by those who do not feel the impotence of man. This is a precious gift.

One had to be a Newton to notice that the moon is falling, when everyone sees that it doesn't fall.

War: a massacre of people who don't know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don't massacre each other.

Thought must be hidden in the verse like nutritional virtue in a fruit.

If what has happened in the one person were communicated directly to the other, all art would collapse, all the effects of art would disappear.

That which has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has every chance of being false.

Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.