The modern moralists extol ... the cult of practical activity in defiance of the disinterested life.

Nothing seems to me more doubtful than Aristotle's remark that it is probable the arts and philosophy have several times been discovered and several times lost.

The man of science, the artist, the philosopher are attached to their nations as much as the day-laborer and the merchant.

I shall go further and say that even if an examination of the past could lead to any valid prediction concerning man's future, that prediction would be the contrary of reassuring.

It may be said that modern Europe with teachers who inform it that its realist instincts are beautiful, acts ill and honors what is ill.

And History will smile to think that this is the species for which Socrates and Jesus Christ died.

Peace, if it ever exists, will not be based on the fear of war but on the love of peace.

The modern clercs have created in so-called cultivated society a positive romanticism of harshness. The have also created a romanticism of contempt.

Peace is only possible if men cease to place their happiness in the possession of things which cannot be shared.

Most of us think too much of speech, which is but the shell of thought.

I love sad songs. They say so much. I love country music but even the happy songs sound really sad.

Shall we dance,friend of my heart?" We shall, little one.

We are not the end of the gospel; God is.

If you create the game, then you create the rules.

Phil Spector is probably a better date than Roman Polanski.

How do you just stop being terrified of getting left behind and ending up by yourself forever and not meaning anything to the world?

The easy, gentle, and sloping path . . . is not the path of true virtue. It demands a rough and thorny road.

Our experience using computers reflects a trade-off that was made fifty years ago or more.

Up! up! my friend, and quit your books, Or surely you 'll grow double! Up! up! my friend, and clear your looks! Why all this toil and trouble?