Though completely armed with knowledge and endowed with power, we are blind and impotent in a world we have equipped and organized-a world of which we now fear the inextricable complexity.

A businessman is a hybrid of a dancer and a calculator.

Every social system is more or less against nature, and at every moment nature is at work to reclaim her rights.

In the physical world, one cannot increase the size or quantity of anything without changing its quality. Similar figures exist only in pure geometry.

The universe is built on a plan the profound symmetry of which is somehow present in the inner structure of our intellect.

Man is only man at the surface. Remove the skin, dissect, and immediately you come to machinery.

Poetry is to prose as dancing is to walking.