Uncertainty is the prerequisite to gaining knowledge and frequently the result as well.

There is a field where all wonderful perfections of microscope and telescope fail, all exquisite niceties of weights and measures, as well as that which is behind them, the keen and driving power of the mind. No facts however indubitably detected, no effort of reason however magnificently maintained, can prove that Bach's music is beautiful.

The suffering of a soul that can suffer greatly -- that and only that, is tragedy.

Moderately wise each one should be, Not overwise, for a wise man's heart Is seldom glad (Norse Wisdom)

The comedy of each age holds up a mirror to the people of that age, a mirror that is unique.

In theology the conservative temper tends to formalism.

None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry.