Highly-adaptive, informal networks move diagonally and eliptically, skipping entire functions to get things done.

In any assembly the simplest way to stop transacting business and split the ranks is to appeal to a principle.

Idealism springs from deep feelings, but feelings are nothing without the formulated idea that keeps them whole.

We cannot appreciate the art of any age without first acquiring an equivalent of the experience it depicts.

The one thing that unifies men in a given age is not their individual philosophies but the dominant problem that these philosophies are designed to solve.

An artist has every right - one may even say a duty - to exhibit his productions as prominently as he can.

Boredom and fatigue are great historical forces.