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

The educated man had throughout the ages found a way to covert passionate activity into silent and motionless pleasure. He can sit still in a room and not perish.

The sole justification of teaching, of the school itself, is that the student comes out of it able to do something he could not do before. I say do and not know, because knowledge that doesn't lead to doing something new or doing something better is not knowledge at all.

Of course, clothing fashions have always been impractical, except in Tahiti.

Writing, at least a craft and at its best an art, aspiring to the unique, is the most difficult to learn.

In ordinary speech the words perception and sensation tend to be used interchangeably, but the psychologist distinguishes. Sensations are the items of consciousness--a color, a weight, a texture--that we tend to think of as simple and single. Perceptions are complex affairs that embrace sensation together with other, associated or revived contents of the mind, including emotions.

Music is intended and designed for sentient beings that have hopes and purposes and emotions.