We cannot take a step toward the heavens. God crosses the universe and comes to us.
When a contradiction is impossible to resolve except by a lie, then we know that it is really a door.
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 most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.
Liberty, taking the word in its concrete sense, consists in the ability to choose.
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.