 War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace. |
| One has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual. |
| What a wonderful phenomenon it is, carefully considered, when the human eye, that jewel of organic structures, concentrates its moist brilliance on another human creature! |
| We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities. |
| The writer's joy is the thought that can become emotion, the emotion that can wholly become a thought. |
| For the myth is the foundation of life; it is the timeless schema, the pious formula into which life flows when it reproduces its traits out of the unconscious. |
| He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer. |
| The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life. |
| There is something suspicious about music, gentlemen. I insist that she is, by her nature, equivocal. I shall not be going too far in saying at once that she is politically suspect. |
| Reduced to a miserable mass level, the level of a Hitler, German Romanticism broke out into hysterical barbarism. |
| It could become much worse. |
| Democracy is timelessly human, and timelessness always implies a certain amount of potential youthfulness. |
| Everything is politics. |
| An art whose medium is language will always show a high degree of critical creativeness, for speech is itself a critique of life: it names, it characterizes, it passes judgment, in that it creates. |
| But my deepest and most secret love belongs to the fair-haired and the blue-eyed, the bright children of life, the happy, the charming and the ordinary. |
| A solitary, unused to speaking of what he sees and feels, has mental experiences which are at once more intense and less articulate than those of a gregarious man. |
