I do not think that any civilization can be called complete until it has progressed from sophistication to unsophistication, and made a conscious return to simplicity of thinking and living.

Art is both creation and recreation.

The three great American vices seem to be efficiency, punctuality, and the desire for achievement and success. They are the things that make the Americans so unhappy and so nervous.

Those who are wise won't be busy, and those who are too busy can't be wise.

India was China's teacher in religion and imaginative literature, and the world's teacher in trignometry, quandratic equations, grammar, phonetics, Arabian Nights, animal fables, chess, as well as in philosophy, and that she inspired Boccaccio, Goethe, Herder, Schopenhauer, Emerson, and probably also old Aesop.

In contrast to logic, there is common sense, or still better, the Spirit of Reasonableness.

Art is both creation and recreation. Of the two ideas, I think art as recreation or as sheer play of the human spirit is more important.