I am sure it is everyone’s experience, as it has been mine, that any discovery we make about ourselves or the meaning of life is never, like a scientific discovery, a coming upon something entirely new and unsuspected; it is rather, the coming to conscious recognition of something, which we really knew all the time but, because we were unwilling to formulate it correctly, we did not hitherto know we knew.

The trees encountered on a country stroll Reveal a lot about that country's soul ... A culture is no better than its woods.

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

No being can make another one happy.

One of the troubles of our times is that we are all, I think, precocious as personalities and backward as characters.

You must go to bed with friends or whores, where money makes up the difference in beauty or desire.

Politics cannot be a science, because in politics theory and practice cannot be separated, and the sciences depend upon their separation.