Religion should be disentangled as much as possible from history and authority and metaphysics, and made to rest honestly on one's fine feelings, on one's indomitable optimism and trust in life.

Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors.

I believe in the possibility of happiness, if one cultivates intuition and outlives the grosser passions, including optimism.

Philosophy is a more intense sort of experience than common life is, just as pure and subtle music, heard in retirement, is something keener and more intense than the howling of storms or the rumble of cities.

Tyrants are seldom free; the cares and the instruments of their tyranny enslave them.

It is possible to be a master in false philosophy, easier, in fact, than to be a master in the truth, because a false philosophy can be made as simple and consistent as one pleases.

The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.