Every true artist feels that he is touching transcendental truths; that his images are shadows of things seen through the veil.

Romance is the deepest thing in life. It is deeper than reality.

Surprise is the secret of joy.

All good men are international. Nearly all bad men are cosmopolitan. If we are to be international we must be national.

The materialist is sure that history has been simply and solely a chain of causation, just as the [lunatic] is quite sure that he is simply and solely a chicken. Materialists and madmen never have doubts.

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

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.