Society itself is an accident to the spirit, and if society in any of its forms is to be justified morally it must be justified at the bar of the individual conscience.

Thought is essentially practical in the sense that but for thought no motion would be an action, no change a progress.

Wisdom comes from disillusionment.

The working of great institutions is mainly the result of a vast mass of routine, petty malice, self interest, carelessness and sheer mistake. Only a residual fraction is thought.

Art is the response to the demand for entertainment, for the stimulation of our senses and imagination, and truth enters into it only as it subserves these ends.

Music contains a whole gamut of experience, from sensuous elements to ultimate intellectual harmonies.

It takes a wonderful brain and exquisite senses to produce a few stupid ideas.