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

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

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

The function of art is to acquaint the beholder with something he has not known before.

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.

Magic, then, is not a method, but a language; it is part and parcel of that greater phenomenon, ritual, which is the language of religion. Ritual is a symbolic transformation of experiences that no other medium can adequately express.