If we would have new knowledge, we must get a whole world of new questions.

All persistent practices in art have a creative function. They may serve several ends, but the chief one is the shaping of the work.

The fairytale is irresponsible; it is frankly imaginary, and its purpose is to gratify wishes, as a dream doth flatter.

value exists only where there is consciousness. Where nothing ever is felt, nothing matters.

The world of physics is essentially the real world construed by mathematical abstractions, and the world of sense is the real world construed by the abstractions which the sense-organs immediately furnish. To suppose that the "material mode" is a primitive and groping attempt at physical conception is a fatal error in epistemology.

A mind that is very selective to forms... is apt to use its images metaphorically, to exploit their possible significance for the conception of remote or intangible ideas.

As comedy presents the vital rhythm of self-preservation, tragedy exhibits that of self-consummation.