The purposiveness of all vital processes, the strategy of the genes and the power of the exploratory drive in animal and man, all seem to indicate that the pull of the future is as real as the pressure of the past.

Every creative act – in science, art, or religion – involves a regression to a more primitive level, a new innocence of perception liberated from the cataract of accepted beliefs.

Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion.

The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we know.

The creative act does not create something out of nothing; it uncovers, selects, reshuffles, combines, synthesizes already existing facts, ideas, faculties, and skills.

History had a slow pulse; man counted in years, history in generations

Faith is a wondrous thing; it is not only capable of moving mountains, but also of making you believe that a herring is a race horse.