Order is not sufficient. What is required, is something much more complex. It is order entering upon novelty; so that the massiveness of order does not degenerate into mere repetition; and so that the novelty is always reflected upon a background of system.

You think the world is what it looks like in fine weather at noon day; I think it is what it seems like in the early morning when one first wakes from deep sleep.

The teleology of the Universe is directed to the production of Beauty... The type of Truth required for the final stretch of Beauty is a discovery and not a recapitulation... Apart from Beauty, Truth is neither good, nor bad... Truth matters because of beauty.

After you understand about the sun and the stars and the rotation of the earth, you may still miss the radiance of the sunset.

You cannot be wise without some basis of knowledge, but you may easily acquire knowledge and remain bare of wisdom.

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

War can protect; it cannot create.