What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.
Every artist writes his own autobiography.
Man lives by imagination.
The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.
Imagination is a poor substitute for experience.
The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.
Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.
It is only the great men who are truly obscene. If they had not dared to be obscene, they could never have dared to be great.
In the early days of Christianity the exercise of chastity was frequently combined with a close and romantic intimacy of affection between the sexes which shocked austere moralists.
A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom.
Education, whatever else it should or should not be, must be an inoculation against the poisons of life and an adequate equipment in knowledge and skill for meeting the chances of life.
All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.
Dreams are real as long as they last. Can we say more of life?
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 p...
There is a very intimate connection between hypnotic phenomena and religion.
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 pretense of keeping it alive.
Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry.
No faith is our own that we have not arduously won.