As societies grow decadent the language grows decadent too. Words are used to disguise not to illuminate action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests.

Supreme serenity still remains the Ideal of great Art. The shapes and transitory forms of life are but stages toward this Ideal which Christ's religion illuminates with His divine light.

Reality only reveals itself when it is illuminated by a ray of poetry.

Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.

Science knows no country because knowledge belongs to humanity and is the torch which illuminates the world.

Science knows no country because knowledge belongs to humanity and is the torch which illuminates the world. Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence.

When the past no longer illuminates the future the spirit walks in darkness.

Our society is illuminated by the spiritual insights of the Hebrew prophets. America and Israel have a common love of human freedom and they have a common faith in a democratic way of life.

To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship which illuminate only the track it has passed.

The questions which one asks oneself begin at least to illuminate the world and become one's key to the experience of others.