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

Cinema is like dream.

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

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.

It is significant that people who refuse to tell their children fairytales do not fear that the children will believe in princes and princesses, but that they will believe in witches and bogeys.

Nature, as man has always known it, he knows no more. Since he has learned to esteem signs above symbols, to suppress his emotional reactions in favor of practical ones and make use of nature instead of holding so much of it sacred, he has altered the face, if not the heart, of reality.