It is well sometimes to half understand a poem in the same manner that we half understand the world.

There is a certain poetic value, and that a genuine one, in this sense of having missed the full meaning of things. There is beauty, not only in wisdom, but in this dazed and dramatic ignorance.

Architecture approaches nearer than any other art to being irrevocable because it is so difficult to get rid of.

Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective. Unless a man starts on the strange assumption that he has never existed before, it is quite certain that he will never exist afterwards.

What we call emancipation is always and of necessity simply the free choice of the soul between one set of limitations and another.

The big corporation is not in the least remarkable for efficiency; it is only too big to be blamed for its inefficiency.

Wherever there is animal worship, there is human sacrifice.