Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.

Religion is always a patron of the arts, but its taste is by no means impeccable.

Indifference to all the refinements of life--it's really shocking. Just Calvinism, that's all. Calvinism without the excuse of Calvin's theology.

The best way to find things out is not to ask questions at all. If you fire off a question, it is like firing off a gun - bang it goes

My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.

Man is an amphibian who lives simultaneously in two worlds-the given and the home-made, the world of matter, life and consciousness and the world of symbols.

Generalities are intellectually necessary evils.