All vital truth contains the memory of all that for which it is not true.

I like relativity and quantum theories because I don't understand them and they make me feel as if space shifted about like a swan that can't settle, refusing to sit still and be measured; and as if the atom were an impulsive thing always changing its mind.

There are three cures for ennui: sleep, drink and travel.

Sight is the least sensual of all the senses. And we strain ourselves to see, see, see--everything, everything through the eye, inone mode of objective curiosity.

That which one cannot experience in daily life is not true for oneself.

I should think the American admiration of five-minute tourists has done more to kill the sacredness of old European beauty and aspiration than multitudes of bombs would have done.

The Christian fear of the pagan outlook has damaged the whole consciousness of man.