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

The unconscious democracy of America is a very fine thing. It is a true and deep and instinctive assumption of the equality of citizens, which even voting and elections have not destroyed.

Christianity met the mythological search for romance by being a story and the philosophical search for truth by being a true story.

It is the decisive people who have become civilised; it is the indecisive, otherwise called the higher sceptics, or the idealistic doubters, who have remained barbarians.

Poets do not go mad; but chess-players do. Mathematicians go mad, and cashiers; but creative artists very seldom. I am not, as will be seen, in any sense attacking logic: I only say that this danger does lie in logic, not in imagination.

One of the chief uses of religion is that it makes us remember our coming from darkness, the simple fact that we are created.

The thing that cannot be defined is the first thing; the primary fact.