The modern city is ugly not because it is a city but because it is not enough of a city, because it is a jungle, because it is confused and anarchic, and surging with selfish and materialistic energies.

There are an infinity of angles at which one falls, only one at which one stands.

Tolerance is the virtue of those who don't believe anything.

Poetry is sane because it floats easily in an infinite sea; reason seeks to cross the infinite sea and so make it finite. The result is mental exhaustion. To accept everything is an exercise, to understand everything a strain.

We can be almost certain of being wrong about the future, if we are wrong about the past.

Modern broad-mindedness benefits the rich; and benefits nobody else.

Science in the modern world has many uses; its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich.