Joy is being fully aware of reality.

If Germany, thanks to Hitler and his successors, were to enslave the European nations and destroy most of the treasures of their past, future historians would certainly pronounce that she had civilized Europe.

True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.

Modern war appears as a struggle led by all the State apparatuses and their general staffs against all men old enough to bear arms.

What is surprising is not that oppression should make its appearance only after higher forms of economy have been reached, but that it should always accompany them.

Intellectual adherence is never owed to anything whatsoever, for it is never in any degree a voluntary thing. Attention alone is voluntary. It alone forms the subject of an obligation.

More than in any other performing arts the lack of respect for acting seems to spring from the fact that every layman considers himself a valid critic.