Just at present you only see the tree by the light of the lamp. I wonder when you would ever see the lamp by the light of the tree.

The thing that cannot be defined is the first thing; the primary fact.

If you know what a man's doing, get in front of him; but if you want to guess what he's doing keep behind him.

The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land.

Individually, men may present a more or less rational appearance, eating, sleeping, and scheming. But humanity a a whole is changeful, mystical, fickle, delightful. Men are men, but Man is a woman.

Research is the search of people who don't know what they want.

They said that I should lose my ideals and begin to believe in the methods of practical politicians. Now, I have not lost my ideals in the least; my faith in fundamentals is exactly what it always was. What I have lost is my childlike faith in practical politics.