“If men could learn from history, what lessons it might teach us. But passion and party blind our eyes, and the light which experience gives us is a lantern on the stern, which shines only on the waves behind us.”

“Why do we sacrifice so much energy to our art?Not in order to teach others but to learn with them what our existence, our organism, our personal and repeatable experience have to give us; to learn to break down the barriers which surround us and to free ourselves from the breaks which hold us back, from the lies about ourselves which we manufacture daily for ourselves and for others; to destroy the limitations caused by our ignorance or lack of courage; in short, to fill the emptiness in us: to fulfill ourselves...art is a ripening, an evolution, an uplifting which enables us to emerge from darkness into a blaze of light.”

“God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way.”

“What experience and history teaches us is that people and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it.”

“other people maay be there to help us, teach us, guide us aolng our path, But the lesson to be learned is always ours”

“That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.”