Emotion is primarily about nothing and much of it remains about nothing to the end.

Religion is the love of life in the consciousness of impotence.

To be bewitched is not to be saved, though all the magicians and aesthetes in the world should pronounce it to be so.

Catastrophes come when some dominant institution, swollen like a soap-bubble and still standing without foundations, suddenly crumbles at the touch of what may seem a word or idea, but is really some stronger material source.

Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.

To feel beauty is a better thing than to understand how we come to feel it. To have imagination and taste, to love the best, to be carried by the contemplation of nature to a vivid faith in the ideal, all this is more, a great deal more, than any science can hope to be.

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.