Ritual is the most primitive reflection of serious thought, a slow deposit, as it were, of people's imaginative insight into life.

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

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

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

Artistic form is congruent with the dynamic forms of our direct sensuous, mental, and emotional life; works of art are projections of "felt life", as Henry James called it, into spatial, temporal, and poetic structures.

The fairytale is irresponsible; it is frankly imaginary, and its purpose is to gratify wishes, as a dream doth flatter.

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