“History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.”
History“Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny.”
Peace“History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.”
History“Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.”
Wisdom“The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity.”
Imagination“To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.”
Nature“Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character.”
Happiness“The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.”
Education“I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.”
Science“Music is essentially useless, as is life.”
Music“Language is like money, without which specific relative values may well exist and be felt, but cannot be reduced to a common denominator.”
Money“The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal.”
Art“The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it.”
Truth“By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a man's power to answer do not occur to him at all.”
Nature“To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.”
Patriotism“It is possible to be a master in false philosophy, easier, in fact, than to be a master in the truth, because a false philosophy can be made as simple and consistent as one pleases.”
Truth“Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.”
Happiness“Only the dead have seen the end of the war.”
War“Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in the conclusions their reasons are always different.”
Women“An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.”
Art“Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny.”
Peace“A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted.”
Happiness