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.

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.

value exists only where there is consciousness. Where nothing ever is felt, nothing matters.

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

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.

What is artistically good is whatever articulates and presents feeling to our understanding.

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