Dancing and building are the two primary and essential arts. The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts that expressthemselves first in the human person. The art of building, or architecture, is the beginning of all the arts that lie outside the person; and in the end they unite. Music, acting, poetry proceed in the one mighty stream; sculpture, painting, all the arts of design, in the other. There is no primary art outside these two arts, for their origin is far earlier than man himself; and dancing came first.

All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.

Life is livable because we know that wherever we go most of the people we meet will be restrained in their actions towards us by an almost instinctive network of taboos.

There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.

However well organised the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks.

In philosophy, it is not the attainment of the goal that matters, it is the things that are met with by the way

The by-product is sometimes more valuable than the product.