The essential is invisible to the eyes.
Treason implies responsibility for something, control over something, influence upon something, knowledge of something. Treason in our time is a proof of genius. Why, I want to know, are not traitors decorated?
In order to cure a feeling of malaise, you have to throw light on it.
The tree is a slow, enduring force straining to win the sky.
He who never says “no” is no true man.
Nothing comes of severity if there be no leanings towards a change of heart. And if there be natural leanings towards a change of heart, what need for severity?
No truth is proved, no truth achieved, by argument, and the ready-made truths men offer you are mere conveniences or drugs to make you sleep.
Truth is not that which is demonstrable but that which is ineluctable.
Truths may clash without contradicting each other.
It is the savor of bread broken with comrades that makes us accept the values of war.
When one is building a ship, one does not begin with gathering timber and cutting planks, but rather by arousing in people the yearning for the great wide sea.
To live is to be slowly born.
When faith burns itself out, ’tis God who dies and thenceforth proves unavailing.
Perhaps creativity is fumbling that dance step, or driving the chisel the wrong way into the stone.
To be a man is to feel that one’s own stone contributes to building the edifice of the world.
The soldier’s body becomes a stock of accessories that are not his property.
Man is, above all, he who creates.
You cannot plant an acorn in the morning, and expect that afternoon to sit in the shade of an oak.
He who would travel happy must travel lite.
Let a man in a garret but burn with enough intensity and he will set fire to the world.