....This world needs Utopias as it needs fairy stories. It does not matter so much where we are going, as long as we are making consciously for some definite goal. And a Utopia, however strange or fanciful, is the only possible beacon upon the uncharted seas of the distant future.

A few drops of science will often disinfect an entire barrel full of ignorance and prejudice.

The arts are an even better barometer of what is happening in our world than the stock market or the debates in congress.

Great art... is the result of the labours of thousands of faithful craftsmen who know that they are doomed to remain for ever outside the gates of the Paradise of Perfection, but who nevertheless will give the very best there is in them because the work they do means more to them than anything else in this world.

It is little enough we know and the rest is darkness.

Any formal attack on ignorance is bound to fail because the masses are always ready to defend their most precious possession - their ignorance.

In such a case the writer is apt to have recourse to epigrams. Somewhere in this world there is an epigram for every dilemma.