If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.

The human imagination has already come to conceive the possibility of recreating human society.

The only thing that we can really make is our work, and deliberate work of the mind, imagination and hand, done, as Nietzsche said, ‘notwithstanding,’ in the long run remakes the world.

The great mistake about Europe is taking the countries seriously and letting them quarrel and drop bombs on one another.

In a sense, one can never read the book that the author originally wrote, and one can never read the same book twice.

On the one hand, I have wanted to supply documentation on myself by including material relevant to my emotions and ideas in my youth; and, on the other, not to let myself down by publishing inferior material. My poetry comes under the latter head. My only advice to the reader is to skip any verse that he sees coming.

The product of the scientific imagination is a new vision of relations - like that of artistic imagination.