Most new discoveries are suddenly-seen things that were always there. A new idea is a light that illuminates presences which simply had no form before the light fell on them.

The limits of thought are not so much set from outside, by the fullness or poverty of experiences that meet the mind, as from within, by the power of conception, the wealth of formulative notions with which the mind meets experiences.

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

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

If we would have new knowledge, we must get a whole world of new questions.

The Past, being in the mode of memory, is closed, inalienable, and irreparable.

As comedy presents the vital rhythm of self-preservation, tragedy exhibits that of self-consummation.