People travel for the same reason as they collect works of art: because the best people do it.

The business of a seer is to see; and if he involves himself in the kind of God-eclipsing activities which make seeing impossible, he betrays the trust which his fellows have tacitly placed in him.

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

Nonsense is an assertion of man's spiritual freedom in spite of all the oppressions of circumstance.

Given the nature of spiders, webs are inevitable. And given the nature of human beings, so are religions. Spiders can't help making fly-traps, and men can't help making symbols. That's what the human brain is there for - the turn the chaos of given experience into a set of manageable symbols.

Drinking can not be sacramentalised except in religions which set no store on decorum. The worship of Dionysos or the Celtic god of beer was a loud and disorderly affair.

On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.