As I got warmed up, and felt perfectly at home in talk, I heard myself boasting, lying, exaggerating. Oh, not deliberately, far from it. It would be ….

It was a morning in early summer. A silver haze shimmered and trembled over the lime trees. The air was laden with their fragrance. The temperature w….

Art, in the widest sense of the word, is the instrument Hellenism has used and would use for that purpose. All the arts, poetry, music, ritual, the v….

Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago..

Art is mind and heart and touch as much and more than it is mere instrument, technique - without which however it cannot exist at all..

When everything else physical and mental seems to diminish, the appreciation of beauty is on the increase..

I would willingly stand at street corners, hat in hand, begging passerby to drop their unused minutes into it..

Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities..

There are two futures, the future of desire and the future of fate, and man's reason has never learnt to separate them..

No artifact is a work of art if it does not help to humanize us. Without art...our world would have remained a jungle..

I would I could stand on a busy corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours..

Taste begins when appetite is satisfied..

I am only a picture-taster, the way others are wine-or tea-tasters..

Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second..

The artist, depicting man disdainful of the storm and stress of life, is no less reconciling and healing than the poet who, while endowing Nature and….

Government is the art of the momentary feasible, of the least bad attainable, and not of the rationally most desirable..

From childhood on I have had the dream of life lived as a sacrament... the dream implied taking life ritually as something holy..

The average European does not seem to feel free until he succeeds in enslaving and oppressing others..

Boast is always a cry of despair, except in the young it is a cry of hope..

One can repent even of having repented..

Literature in its most comprehensive sense is the autobiography of humanity..