Orthodoxy is the diehard of the world of thought. It learns not, neither can it forget.

A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude.

The goal in life is to discover that you’ve always been where you were supposed to be.

Every individual is at once the beneficiary and the victim of the linguistic tradition into which he has been born.

If one is not oneself a sage or saint, the best thing one can do is to study the words of those who were.

A competent portraitist knows how to imply the profile in the full face.

We tend to think and feel in terms of the art we like; and if the art we like is bad then our thinking and feeling will be bad. And if the thinking and feeling of most of the individuals composing a society is bad, is not that society in danger?