It is the historical mind, rather than the scientific (in the physicist's sense), that destroyed the mythical orientation of European culture; the historian, not the mathematician, introduced the "higher criticism," the standard of actual fact. It is he who is the real apostle of the realistic age.

The continual pursuit of meanings-wider, clearer, more negotiable, more articulate meanings- is philosophy.

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

One can bear anything of which one is able to conceive.

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.

Is it conceivable that mysticism is a mark of inadequate art?

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