Art is the objectification of feeling, and the subjectification of nature.

In human life, art may arise from almost any activity, and once it does so, it is launched on a long road of exploration, invention, freedom to the limits of extravagance, interference to the point of frustration, finally discipline, controlling constant change and growth.

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.

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

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

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

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.