Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.
Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being.
A mind enclosed in language is in prison.
The vulnerability of precious things is beautiful because vulnerability is a mark of existence. The destruction of Troy. The fall of the petals from fruit trees in blossom. To know that what is most precious is not rooted in existence - that is beautiful.
Liberty, taking the word in its concrete sense, consists in the ability to choose.
We must love all facts, not for their consequences, but because in each fact God is there present.