It is quite beyond me how anyone can believe God speaks to us in books and stories. If the world does not directly reveal to us our relationship to it, if our hearts fail to tell us what we owe ourselves and others, we shall assuredly not learn it from books, which are at best designed but to give names to our errors.

It has been said that figures rule the world. Maybe. But I am sure that figures show us whether it is being ruled well or badly.

What do people mean when they talk about unhappiness? It is not so much unhappiness as impatience that from time to time possesses men, and then they choose to call themselves miserable.

The effects of good music are not just because it's new; on the contrary music strikes us more the more familiar we are with it.

Why look for conspiracy when stupidity can explain so much

Belief is not the beginning of knowledge - it is the end.

There is no surer method of evading the world than by following Art, and no surer method of linking oneself to it than by Art.