The poison of skepticism becomes, like alcoholism, tuberculosis, and some other diseases, much more virulent in a hitherto virgin soil.

Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being.

The poet produces the beautiful by fixing his attention on something real.

Armies under the control of ... a sovereign State cannot bring freedom to anyone.

It is precisely those artists and writers who are most inclined to think of their art as the manifestation of their personality who are in fact the most in bondage to public taste.

The only hope of socialism resides in those who have already brought about in themselves, as far as is possible in the society of today, that union between manual and intellectual labor which characterizes the society we are aiming at.

Necessity is God's veil.