We are only geometricians of matter; the Greeks were, first of all, geometricians in the apprenticeship to virtue.

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.

Just as the power of the sun is the only force in the natural universe that causes a plant to grow against gravity, so the grace of God is the only force in the spiritual universe that causes a person to grow against the gravity of their own ego.

The appetite for power, even for universal power, is only insane when there is no possibility of indulging it; a man who sees the possibility opening before him and does not try to grasp it, even at the risk of destroying himself and his country, is either

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

The world is the closed door. It is a barrier. And at the same time it is the way through.

one is never got out of the cave, one comes out of it.