Nature, as man has always known it, he knows no more. Since he has learned to esteem signs above symbols, to suppress his emotional reactions in favor of practical ones and make use of nature instead of holding so much of it sacred, he has altered the face, if not the heart, of reality.

The limits of thought are not so much set from outside, by the fullness or poverty of experiences that meet the mind, as from within, by the power of conception, the wealth of formulative notions with which the mind meets experiences.

A philosophy is characterized more by the formulation of its problem than by its solution of them.

The continual pursuit of meanings-wider, clearer, more negotiable, more articulate meanings- is philosophy.

The first impression of a work of art is its otherness from reality.

Art is just as comprehensible as science, but in its own terms.

Is it conceivable that mysticism is a mark of inadequate art?