A signal is comprehended if it serves to make us notice the object or situation it bespeaks. A symbol is understood when we conceive the idea it presents.

The high intellectual value of images, however, lies in the fact that they usually, and perhaps always, fit more than one actual experience.

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

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

Tragedy dramatizes human life as potentiality and fulfillment. Its virtual future, or Destiny, is therefore quite different from that created in comedy. Comic Destiny is Fortune - what the world will bring, and the man will take or miss, encounter or escape; tragic Destiny is what the man brings, and the world will demand of him. That is his Fate.

Most new discoveries are suddenly-seen things that were always there.

The Past, being in the mode of memory, is closed, inalienable, and irreparable.