The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced.

There is no rapture in the love which is prompted by esteem; such affection is lasting, not passionate.

Music expresses that which cannot be put into words.

All roads are blocked to a philosophy which reduces everything to the word "no." To "no" there is only one answer and that is "yes." Nihilism has no substance. There is no such thing as nothingness, and zero does not exist. Everything is something. Nothing is nothing. Man lives more by affirmation than by bread.

A republic may be called the climate of civilization.

A fixed idea ends in madness or heroism.

The aim of art is almost divine: to bring to life again if it is writing history, to create if it is writing poetry.