The God to whom depth in philosophy bring back men's minds is far from being the same from whom a little philosophy estranges them

Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better.

Imagination is potentially infinite. Though actually we are limited to the types of experience for which we possess organs, those organs are somewhat plastic. Opportunity will change their scope and even their center.

Experience seems to most of us to lead to conclusions, but empiricism has sworn never to draw them.

It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz bands.

why shouldnt things be largely absurd, futile, and transitory? they are so, and we are so, and they and we go together.

What is more important in life than our bodies or in the world than what we look like?