Art enlarges experience by admitting us to the inner life of others.

Lovers who have nothing to do but love each other are not really to be envied; love and nothing else very soon is nothing else.

When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a considerable and often a radical distortion. The complex is made over into the simple, the hypothetical into the dogmatic, and the relative into an absolute.

He has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so.

The search for moral guidance which shall not depend upon external authority has invariably ended in the acknowledgment of some new authority.

While the right to talk may be the beginning of freedom, the necessity of listening is what makes that right important.

We are all captives of the picture in our head - our belief that the world we have experienced is the world that really exists.