The great Gaels of Ireland are the men that God made mad, For all their wars are merry, and all their songs are sad.

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

The poet only asks to get his head into the heavens. It is the logician who seeks to get the heavens into his head. And it is his head that splits.

Theology is only thought applied to religion.

If there is one thing worse than the modern weakening of major morals, it is the modern strengthening of minor morals.

For my part, I should be inclined to suggest that the chief object of education should be to restore simplicity. If you like to put it so, the chief object of education is not to learn things; nay, the chief object of education is to unlearn things.

You'll never find the solution if you don't see the problem.