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.

We can be almost certain of being wrong about the future, if we are wrong about the past.

The Byzantines hammered away at their hard and orthodox symbols, because they could not be in a mood to believe that men could take a hint. The moderns drag out into lengths and reels of extravagance their new orthodoxy of being unorthodox, because they also cannot give a hint -- or take a hint. Yet all perfect and well-poised art is really a hint.

Mysticism keeps mankind sane. As long as you have mystery you have health; when you destroy mystery you create morbidity.

How much happier you would be, how much more of you there would be, if the hammer of a higher God could smash your small cosmos.

Physical science is like simple addition: it is either infallible or it is false.

Thinking in isolation and with pride ends in being an idiot.