Truths may clash without contradicting each other.

Truth is not that which is demonstrable but that which is ineluctable.

No truth is proved, no truth achieved, by argument, and the ready-made truths men offer you are mere conveniences or drugs to make you sleep.

The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.

“Good taste” is a virtue of the keepers of museums. If you scorn bad taste, you will have neither painting nor dancing, neither palaces nor gardens.

Nothing comes of severity if there be no leanings towards a change of heart. And if there be natural leanings towards a change of heart, what need for severity?

Only he can understand what a farm is, what a country is, who shall have sacrificed part of himself to his farm or country.

To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible.

There is no hope of joy except in human relations.

He who never says “no” is no true man.