One doesn't bother to believe the credible: the credible is believed already, by definition. There's no adventure of the mind.

The Bible is not interested in arguing, because if you state a thesis of belief you have already stated it's opposite; if you say, I believe in God, you have already suggested the possibility of not believing in him. [p.250]

Advertising - a judicious mixture of flattery and threats.

Work, as we usually think of it, is energy expended for a further end in view; play is energy expended for its own sake, as with children's play, or as manifestation of the end or goal of work, as in "playing" chess or the piano. Play in this sense, then, is the fulfillment of work, the exhibition of what the work has been done for.

It is of the essence of imaginative culture that it transcends the limits both of the naturally possible and of the morally acceptable.

The poet, however, uses these two crude, primitive, archaic forms of thought (simile and metaphor) in the most uninhibited way, because his job is not to describe nature, but to show you a world completely absorbed and possessed by the human mind.

Separatism is a very healthy movement within culture. It's a disastrous movement within politics and economics.