History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.

The more rational an institution is the less it suffers by making concessions to others.

The arts must study their occasions; they must stand modestly aside until they can slip in fitly into the interstices of life.

My soul hates the fool whose only passion is to live by rule.

It is a pleasant surprise to him (the pure mathematician) and an added problem if he finds that the arts can use his calculations, or that the senses can verify them, much as if a composer found that sailors could heave better when singing his songs.

I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.

To keep beauty in its place is to make all things beautiful.