Ultimate Reality is not clearly and immediately apprehended except by those who have made themselves loving, pure in heart and poor in spirit.

All the advantages of Christianity and alcohol; none of their defects.

Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.

And no wonder; for the new technique of "subliminal projection," as it was called, was intimately associated with mass entertainment, and in the life of civilized human beings massed entertainment now plays a part comparable to that played in the Middle Ages be religion.

Art and religion, carnivals and saturnalia, dancing and listening to oratory - all these have served, in H. G. Wells's phrase, as Doors in the Wall.

Since Mozart's day composers have learned the art of making music throatily and palpitatingly sexual.

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.