Speech is the mark of humanity. It is the normal terminus of thought.

If a work of art is a projection of feeling, its kinship with organic nature will emerge, no matter through how many transformations, logically and inevitably.

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.

Cinema is like dream.

It is significant that people who refuse to tell their children fairytales do not fear that the children will believe in princes and princesses, but that they will believe in witches and bogeys.

The development of beings with minds is probably the highest individuation the world has ever known, and its prehistory is the history of life on earth.

Art is the creation of forms symbolic of human feeling.