There is more simplicity in the man who eats caviar on impulse than in the man who eats Grape-Nuts on principle.

Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.

A building is akin to dogma; it is insolent, like dogma. Whether or no it is permanent, it claims permanence, like a dogma. People ask why we have no typical architecture of the modern world, like impressionism in painting. Surely it is obviously because we have not enough dogmas; we cannot bear to see anything in the sky that is solid and enduring, anything in the sky that does not change like the clouds of the sky.

Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.

Forms of expression always appear turgid to those who do not share the emotions they represent.

Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.

The present condition of fame is merely fashion.