Death is the only thing we haven't succeeded in completely vulgarizing.

Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him. It is a gift for dealing with the accidents of existence, not the accidents themselves.

Where beauty is worshipped for beauty's sake as a goddess, independent of and superior to morality and philosophy, the most horrible putrefaction is apt to set in. The lives of the aesthetes are the far from edifying commentary on the religion of beauty.

For in spite of language, in spite of intelligence and intuition and sympathy, one can never really communicate anything to anybody.

Peace is a necessary condition of spirituality, no less than an inevitable result of it.

Science in itself is morally neutral; it becomes good or evil according as it is applied.

Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.