Consistency, commonly thought of as a good thing, requires you to be as ignorant today as you wre a year ago.
Miracles happen to those who believe in them.
Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.
Literature in its most comprehensive sense is the autobiography of humanity.
The ultimate justification of the work of art is to help the spectator to become a work of art himself.
We usually meet all of our relatives only at funerals where somebody always observes: “Too bad we can’t get together more often”.
You can parody and make fun of almost anything, but that does not turn the universe into a caricature.
I am only a picture-taster, the way others are wine-or tea-tasters.
Genius is the capacity for productive reaction against one’s training.
It makes me happy to encounter goodness, love of work, humane intelligence, and people no matter at what kind of job, be it ever so humble, or ever so exalted, who do it well and con amore.
Government lasts as long as the under-taxed can defend themselves against the over-taxed.
I would willingly stand at street corners, hat in hand, begging passerby to drop their unused minutes into it.
All of the arts, poetry, music, ritual, the visible arts, the theater, must singly and together create the most comprehensive art of all, a humanized society, and its masterpiece, free man.
Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.
There are two futures, the future of desire and the future of fate, and man’s reason has never learned to separate them.
A complete life may be one ending in so full an identification with the oneself that there is no self left to die.