When science, art, literature, and philosophy are simply the manifestation of personality they are on a level where glorious and dazzling achievements are possible, which can make a man's name live for thousands of years. But above this level, far above,

Arts and Artists

Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.

Education

The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.

Existence

I can, therefore I am.

Force

Who were the fools who spread the story that brute force cannot kill ideas? Nothing is easier. And once they are dead they are no more than corpses.

Genius

Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought.

Goodness

At the bottom of the heart of every human being, from earliest infancy until the tomb, there is something that goes on indomitably expecting, in the teeth of all experience of crimes committed, suffered, and witnessed, that good and not evil will be done

Imagination

Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it.

Intelligence and Intellectuals

Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being.

Life and Living

Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Oppression

Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what is happening. Unless one has placed oneself on the side of the oppressed, to feel with them, one cannot understand.

Past

The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.

Problems

When a contradiction is impossible to resolve except by a lie, then we know that it is really a door.

Reality

A test of what is real is that it is hard and rough. Joys are found in it, not pleasure. What is pleasant belongs to dreams.

Skepticism

The poison of skepticism becomes, like alcoholism, tuberculosis, and some other diseases, much more virulent in a hitherto virgin soil.

Soul

To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.

Sympathy

The capacity to give one's attention to a sufferer is a very rare and difficult thing; it is almost a miracle; it is a miracle. Nearly all those who think they have this capacity do not possess it. Warmth of heart, impulsiveness, pity are not enough.