Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.

There can be a true grandeur in any degree of submissiveness, because it springs from loyalty to the laws and to an oath, and not from baseness of soul.

To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.

Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what is happening. Unless one has placed oneself on the side of the oppressed, to feel with them, one cannot understand.

Every atheist is an idolater- unless he is worshipping the true God in his impersonal aspect. The majority of the pious are idolaters.

Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.

Human existence is so fragile a thing and exposed to such dangers that I cannot love without trembling.