Doing is overrated, and success undesirable, but the bitterness of failure even more so.

Industrial society seems likely to be entering a period of severe stress, due in part to problems of human behavior and in part to economic and environmental problems

Like water, we are truest to our nature in repose.

Imagination is nostalgia for the past, the absent it is the liquid solution in which art develops the snapshot of reality.

Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature.

Idleness is only a coarse name for my infinite capacity for living in the present.

For what is liberty but the unhampered translation of will into act?