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.

In a living civilization there is always an element of unrest, for sensitiveness to ideas means curiosity, adventure, change. Civilized order survives on its merits and is transformed by its power of recognizing its imperfections.

Through and through the world is infested with quantity: To talk sense is to talk quantities. It is no use saying the nation is large. . . . How large? It is no use saying the radium is scarce. . . . How scarce? You cannot evade quantity. You may fly to poetry and music, and quantity and number will face you in your rhythms and your octaves.

The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy.

Life is the enjoyment of emotion, derived from the past and aimed at the future.

Imagination is not to be divorced from the facts. It is a way of illuminating the facts.

Governments are best classified by considering who are the 'somebodies' they are in fact endeavouring to satisfy.