Music, not being made up of objects nor referring to objects, is intangible and ineffable; it can only be as it were inhaled by the spirit: the rest is silence.

Finding oneself was a misnomer; a self is not found but made.

Intellect has nothing to do with equality except to respect it as a sublime convention.

Simple English is no one’s mother tongue. It has to be worked for.

The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind.

It is only in the shadows, when some fresh wave, truly original, truly creative, breaks upon the shore, that there will be a rediscovery of the West.

It is not clear to anyone, least of all the practitioners, how science and technology in their headlong course do or should influence ethics and law, education and government, art and social philosophy, religion and the life of the affections. Yet science is an all-pervasive energy, for it is at once a mode of thought, a source of strong emotion, and a faith as fanatical as any in history.