The mentality of mankind and the language of mankind created each other. If we like to assume the rise of language as a given fact, then it is not going too far to say that the souls of men are the gift from language to mankind. The account of the sixth day should be written: He gave them speech, and they became souls.

Error itself may be happy chance.

An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words.

Every really new idea looks crazy at first.

Aristotle discovered all the half-truths which were necessary to the creation of science.

Art flourishes where there is a sense of adventure, a sense of nothing having been done before, of complete freedom to experiment.

Almost all new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced.