In case I conk out, this is provisionally what I have to do: I must clarify obscurities; I must make clearer definite ideas or dissociations. I must find a verbal formula to combat the rise of brutality--the principle of order versus the split atom.

In case I conk out, this is provisionally what I have to do: I must clarify obscurities; I must make clearer definite ideas or dissociations. I must find a verbal formula to combat the rise of brutality--the principle of order versus the split atom.

People find ideas a bore because they do not distinguish between live ones and stuffed ones on a shelf.

This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.

A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.

I once saw a small child go to an electric light switch as say, Mamma, can I open the light? She was using the age-old language of exploration, the language of art.

What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it.