A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.

There will be, in the next generation or so, a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude, and producing dictatorship without tears, so to speak, producing a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies, so that people will in fact have their liberties taken away from them, but will rather enjoy it.

The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name.

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.

Every significant artist is a metaphysician, a propounder of beauty-truths and form-theories.

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.

One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.