Contemporary society has become dry, not for lack of wonders but for lack of wonder.

Progress should mean that we are always changing the world to fit the vision, instead we are always changing the vision.

A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.

The Party System was founded on one national notion of fair play. It was the notion that folly and futility should be fairly divided between both sides.

Man knows that there are in the soul tints more bewildering, more numberless, and more nameless that the colors of an autumn forest....Yet he seriously believes that these things can every one of them , in all their tones and semi-tones, in all their blends and unions, be accurately represented by an arbitrary system of grunts and squeals. He believes that an ordinary civilized stockbroker can really produce out of his own inside noises which denote all the mysteries of memory and all the agonies of desire.

The man of the true religious tradition understands two things: liberty and obedience. The first means knowing what you really want. The second means knowing what you really trust.

Facts as facts do not always create a spirit of reality, because reality is a spirit.