no subject of study is more important than reading…all other intellectual powers depend on it.

Look for all fancy wordings and get rid of themAvoid all terms and expressions, old or new, that embody affectation.

For the educated, the authority of science rested on the strictness of its methods; for the mass, it rested on the powers of explanation.

If it were possible to talk to the unborn, one could never explain to them how it feels to be alive, for life is washed in the speechless real.

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.

The ascetic is often a sensualist who has reached the limit of his capacity.

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.