Use harms and even destroys beauty. The noblest function of an object is to be contemplated.

The skeptic does not mean him who doubts, but him who investigates or researches, as opposed to him who asserts and thinks that he has found.

Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.

Your neighbor's vision is as true for him as your own vision is true for you.

We need God, not in order to understand the why, but in order to feel and sustain the ultimate wherefore, to give a meaning to the universe.

All knowledge has an ultimate goal. Knowledge for the sake of knowledge is, say what you will, nothing but a dismal begging of the question.

We should try to be the parents of our future rather than the offspring of our past.