Language is, without a doubt, the most momentous and at the same time the most mysterious product of the human mind.

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 way a question is asked limits and disposes the ways in which any answer to it-right or wrong-may be given.

The faith of scientists in the power and truth of mathematics is so implicit that their work has gradually become less and less observation, and more and more calculation.... But the facts which are accepted by virtue of these tests are not actually observed at all.

We have no physical model of this endless rhythm of individuation and involvement, we do have its image in the world of art, most purely in dance.

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

Only a creature that can think symbolically about life can conceive of its own death. Our knowledge of death is part of our knowledge of life.