Only in the most unusual cases is it useful to determine whether a book is good or bad; for it is just as rare for it to be one or the other. It is usually both.

It will always be the same possibilities, in sum or on the average, that go on repeating themselves until a man comes along who does not value the actuality above idea. It is he who first gives the new possibilities their meaning, their direction, and he awakens them.

All still lifes are actually paintings of the world on the sixth day of creation, when God and the world were alone together, without man!

We do not have too much intellect and too little soul, but too little intellect in matters of the soul.

... all professional ideologies are high-minded. Hunters, for instance, would not dream of calling themselves the butchers of the woods.

[...] a number of flawed individuals can often add up to a brilliant social unit.

Progress would be wonderful - if only it would stop.