It is the simple truth that man does differ from the brutes in kind and not in degree; and the proof of it is here; that it sounds like a truism to say that the most primitive man drew a picture of a monkey and that it sounds like a joke to say that the most intelligent monkey drew a picture of a man. Something of division and disproportion has appeared; and it is unique. Art is the signature of man.

You may think a crime horrible because you could never commit it. I think it is horrible because I could commit it.

Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it.

All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.

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.

The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us.

The prophet and the quack are alike admired for a generation, and admired for the wrong reasons.