War is the supreme drama of a completely mechanized society.

The cities and mansions that people dream of are those in which they finally live.

Order and creativity are complementary.

One of the functions of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence.

Henceforward, I shout to the heavens, I shall deliver no more lectures on behalf of good causes: I am the good cause that denies the need for such lectures. Avaunt, importuning world! Back to my cell.

The convenience of timekeeping is greatly overrated; and the people who practice it so faithfully that they lose the capacity for appreciating the fixed and the static and the spatially related experiences cut themselves off from a good part of reality.

Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.