But games always cover something deep and intense, else there would be no excitement in them, no pleasure, no power to stir us.
What do we mean by setting a man free? You cannot free a man who dwells in a desert and is an unfeeling brute.
It is the missed opportunity that counts, and in a love that vainly yearns from behind prison bars you have perchance the love supreme.
Vain is the hope of finding pleasure in that which one has hitherto disdained; as when the warrior hopes to find pleasure in the joys of the sedentaries.
Prison is not a mere physical horror. It is using a pickaxe to no purpose that makes a prison.
Truth, for any man, is that which makes him a man.
Peace is present when things form part of a whole greater than their sum, as the diverse minerals in the ground collect to become the tree.
Man’s progress is but a gradual discovery that his questions have no meaning.
It is as a soldier that you make love and as a lover that you make war.
He who bears in his heart a cathedral to be built is already victorious. He who seeks to become sexton of a finished cathedral is already defeated.
Defeat may prove to have been the only path to resurrection, despite its ugliness.
Trying to be witty leads to lying, more or less.
A man has many parts, he is virtually everything, and you are free to select in him that part which pleases you.
The seed haunted by the sun never fails to find its way between the stones in the ground. And the pure logician, if no sun draws him forth, remains entangled in his logic.
The field of consciousness is tiny. It accepts only one problem at a time. Get into a fist fight, put your mind on the strategy of the fight, and you will not feel the other fellow’s punches.
I saw the sunset forty-four times!
I shall never again admire a merely brave man.
When you tame someone they become unique to you in all the world.
If I had fifty-three minutes to spend as I liked, I should walk at my leisure toward a spring of fresh water.
If a composer suffers from loss of sleep and his sleeplessness induces him to turn out masterpieces, what a profitable loss it is!