 There has never been any country at every moment so virtuous and so wise that it has not sometimes needed to be saved from itself. |
| The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw. |
| However well organized the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks. |
| A sublime faith in human imbecility has seldom led those who cherish it astray. |
| The family only represents one aspect, however important an aspect, of a human being's functions and activities. A life is beautiful and ideal or the reverse, only when we have taken into our consideration the social as well as the family relationship. Topics: Family, Life |
| The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a Wilderness. |
| The mathematician has reached the highest rung on the ladder of human thought. |
| Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself. |
| The greatest task before civilization at present is to make machines what they ought to be, the slaves, instead of the masters of men. |
| There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it. |
| One can know nothing of giving aught that is worthy to give unless one also knows how to take. |
| The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts that express themselves first in the human person. The art of building, or architecture, is the beginning of all the arts that lie outside the person; and in the end they unite. |
| The prevalence of suicide, without doubt, is a test of height in civilization; it means that the population is winding up its nervous and intellectual system to the utmost point of tension and that sometimes it snaps. |
| In philosophy, it is not the attainment of the goal that matters, it is the things that are met with by the way. |
| Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive. |
| Every artist writes his own autobiography. |
| I always seem to have a vague feeling that he is a Satan among musicians, a fallen angel in the darkness who is perpetually seeking to fight his way back to happiness. |
| "Charm" - which means the power to effect work without employing brute force - is indispensable to women. Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm. |
