To ease another's burden, help to carry it..

The motive power of democracy is love.

It is of man's essence to create materially and morally, to fabricate things and to fabricate himself. Homo faber is the definition I propose ... Hom….

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

All the translations of a poem in all possible languages may add nuance to nuance and, by a kind of mutual retouching, by correcting one another, may….

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 som….

On the other hand, the pleasure caused by laughter, even on the stage, is not an unadulterated enjoyment; it is not a pleasure that is exclusively es….

The vital spirit. L'élan vital.

In just the same way the thousands of successive positions of a runner are contracted into one sole symbolic attitude, which our eye perceives, which….

There are manifold tones of mental life, or, in other words, our psychic life may be lived at different heights, now nearer to action, now further re….

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