Fire is a natural symbol of life and passion, though it is the one element in which nothing can actually live.

Pioneering is the work of individuals.

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

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

Artistic form is congruent with the dynamic forms of our direct sensuous, mental, and emotional life; works of art are projections of "felt life", as Henry James called it, into spatial, temporal, and poetic structures.

Real thinking is possible only in the light of genuine language, no matter how limited, how primitive.

The intellectual treatment of any datum, any experience, any subject, is determined by the nature of our questions, and only carried out in the answers.