The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell

The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell.

The role of the intelligence - that part of us which affirms and denies and formulates opinions is merely to submit.

Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value, but in thinking that man can get them for himself without grace.

The joy of learning is as indispensable in study as breathing is in running. Where it is lacking there are no real students, but only poor caricatures of apprentices who, at the end of their apprenticeship, will not even have a trade.

Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.