Only a people serving an apprenticeship to nature can be trusted with machines. Only such people will so contrive and control those machines that their products are an enhancement of biological needs, and not a denial of them.

The great modern heresy in poetry is to confuse the use we make of words in a poem with modalities of speech...For true poetry is never speech but always a song.

The principle of equity first came into evidence in Roman jurisprudence and was derived by analogy from the physical meaning of the word.

A man of personality can formulate ideals, but only a man of character can achieve them.

To realize that new world we must prefer the values of freedom and equality above all other values - above personal wealth, technical power and nationalism.

It is already clear, after twenty years of socialism in Russia, that if you do not provide your society with a new religion, it will gradually revert to the old one.

What I do deny is that you can build any enduring society without some such mystical ethos.