We ought to dance with rapture that we should be alive and in the flesh, and part of the living, incarnate cosmos.

Brave people add up to an aristocracy. The democracy of thou-shalt-not is bound to be a collection of weak men.

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.

Men are free when they belong to a living, organic, believing community, active in fulfilling some unfulfilled, perhaps unrealized purpose.

The modern pantheist not only sees the god in everything, he takes photographs of it.

You're always begging things to love you," he said, "as if you were a beggar for love. Even the flowers, you have to fawn on them--

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.