If reality impacted directly on our senses and our consciousness, if we could have direct communication between the material world and ourselves, art would be unnecessary.

To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.

I would say act like a man of thought and think like a man of action.

Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.

There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.

In laughter we always find an unavowed intention to humiliate and consequently to correct our neighbour.

We are free when our actions emanate from our total personality, when they express it, when they resemble it in the indefinable way a work of art sometimes does the artist.

Intuition is a method of feeling one's way intellectually into the inner heart of a thing to locate what is unique and inexpressible in it.

The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.

The motive power of democracy is love

Only those ideas that are least truly ours can be adequately expressed in words.

The power we were given to think, is to enable us to live better lives, not fool more people.

I'm an athletic actor. I'm known for my action; I'm a guy who does my own stunts on screen.

Historical judgement is not a variety of knowledge, it is knowledge itself; it is the form which completely fills and exhausts the field of knowing, leaving no room for anything else.

Art is self expression. If you are expressing someone else's personality, that is not art.

They took all the trees and put them in a tree museum.

There was nothing more dangerous than people convinced of their own good intentions.

You can't have a situation in which companies proceed on a permanent basis relying only on cash from the government.

You exist if and only if you are free to do things without a visible objective, with no justification and, above all, outside the dictatorship of someone else's narrative.

Perhaps the things that break our hearts are the very things that serve to open them.

A country inn is a percolator. News seeps, simmers, and bubbles.