These are strange times. Reason, which once combatted faith and seemed to have conquered it, now has to look to faith to save it from dissolution.
Category Archive: Dutch
If we are to preserve culture we must continue to create it.
The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
War is sweet to those who have not experienced it.
It is impossible to strive for the heroic life. The title of hero is bestowed by the survivors upon the fallen, who themselves know nothing of heroism.
Revolution as an ideal concept always preserves the essential content of the original thought: sudden and lasting betterment.
Play is a uniquely adaptive act, not subordinate to some other adaptive act, but with a special function of its own in human experience.
Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious.
The entire world is my temple, and a very fine one too, if I’m not mistaken, and I’ll never lack priests to serve it as long as there are men.