Youth is life as yet unblemished by much tragedy, but hardly by TV.

Seek simplicity, then distrust.

Algebra reverses the relative importance of the factors in ordinary language.

Our minds are finite, and yet even in these circumstances of finitude we are surrounded by possibilities that are infinite, and the purpose of life is to grasp as much as we can out of that infinitude.

How the past perishes is how the future becomes.

Art heightens the sense of humanity. It gives an elation to feeling which is supernatural...A million sunsets will not spur us on towards civilization. It requires Art to evoke into consciousness the finite perfections which lie ready for human achievement.

A great society is a society in which its men of business think greatly of their functions.