People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make.

The one created thing which we cannot look at is the one thing in the light of which we look at everything.

The function of the imagination is not to make strange things settled, so much as to make settled things strange.

I always like a dog so long as he isn't spelled backward.

I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.

I have myself a poetical enthusiasm for pigs, and the paradise of my fancy is one where pigs have wings. But it is only men, especially wise men, who discuss whether pigs can fly; we have no particular proof that pigs ever discuss it.

Whatever else we may say of our own age, for good or evil, nobody is likely to call it an Age of Reason.