Civilizations die from philosophical calm, irony, and a sense of fair play quite as surely as they die of debauchery.

Metaphysics may be, after all, only the art of being sure of something that is not so and logic only the art of going wrong with confidence.

It is disastrous to own more of anything than you can possess, and it is one of the most fundamental laws of human nature that our power actually to possess is limited.

Security depends not so much upon how much you have, as upon how much you can do without.

The advertiser is the overrewarded court jester and court pander at the democratic court.

The rare moment is not the moment when there is something worth looking at, but the moment when we are capable of seeing.

A tragic writer does not have to believe in God, but he must believe in man.