Ernest Dimnet

"We all more or less consciously note this. We cannot help observing that all serious conversations gravitate towards philosophy."

"Personality is the knowledge that we are apart from the rest of the universe."

"Every day you waste a chance, many chances in fact, of getting at your innermost consciousness by expressing yourself as you see yourself, and I say it is a pity because it makes you, year after year …"

"You are not to disbelieve human science or think human reason invalid except when they venture outside their province."

"The happiness of most people we know is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things."

"Where the writer produces that combination of perfect technique, human interest, and thruth, and can add to it that supreme touch, the perfection of art has been attained."

"Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul."

"Ideas are the root of creation."