A symphony is a stage play with the parts written for instruments instead of for actors.

It is important to grasp that boredom is one of the most common - and undesirable - consequences of 'unicameralism'. Boredom is a feeling of being 'dead inside'; that is to say, loss of contact with our instincts and feelings.

If you asked me what is the basis of all my work, it's the feeling there's something basically wrong with human beings.

The self-surmounter can never put up with the man who has ceased to be dissatisfied with himself.

When we pull back and get, for a moment, the 'bird's eye' view of life, it reveals meanings that are ungraspable by the narrow focus of our usual worm's eye view

The real issue is not whether two and two make four or whether two and two make five, but whether life advances by men who love words or by men who love living.

One cannot ignore half of life for the purposes of science, and then claim that the results of science give a full and adequate picture of the meaning of life. All discussions of 'life' which begin with a description of man's place on a speck of matter in space, in an endless evolutionary scale, are bound to be half-measures, because they leave out most of the experiences which are important to use as human beings.