Civilization can be defined at once by the basic questions it asks and by those it does not ask.

L'intellectuel est celui qui ordonne sa vie a une idee.

Culture is the sum of all the forms of art, of love and of thought, which, in the course of centuries, have enabled man to be less enslaved.

Art is a revolt against fate.

We are like ignorant shepherds living on a site where great civilizations once flourished. The shepherds play with the fragments that pop up to the surface, ha…

Does there, I wonder, exist a being who has read all, or approximately all, that the person of average culture is supposed to have read, and that not to have r…

Art hath an enemy called Ignorance.