Man is a history-making creature, who can neither repeat his past, nor leave it behind.

Criticism should be a casual conversation.

What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish.

The closest modern equivalent to the Homeric hero is the ace fighter pilot.

Had Greek civilization never existed ... we would never have become fully conscious.

My deepest feeling about politicians is that they are dangerous lunatics to be avoided when possible and carefully humored; people, above all, to whom one must never tell the truth.

How should we like it were stars to burn With a passion for us we could not return? If equal affection cannot be, Let the more loving one be me.