A man’s age represents a fine cargo of experiences and memories.
One’s suffering disappears when one lets oneself go, when one yields – even to sadness.
The airplane has unveiled for us the true face of the earth.
Defeat is a thing of weariness, of incoherence, of boredom, and above all futility.
To grasp the meaning of the world of today we use a language created to express the world of yesterday. The life of the past seems to us nearer our true natures, but only for the reason that it is nearer our language.
Loneliness is bred of a mind that has grown earth-bound.
What sets men at variance is but the treachery of language, for always they desire the same things.
A child is not frightened at the thought of being patiently transmuted into an old man.
We must not subject him who creates to the desires of the multitude. It is, rather, his creation that must become the multitude’s desire.
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.