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

A mind that is very selective to forms... is apt to use its images metaphorically, to exploit their possible significance for the conception of remote or intangible ideas.

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.

Art is just as comprehensible as science, but in its own terms.

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

the wide discrepancy between reason and feeling may be unreal; it is not improbable that intellect is a high form of feeling - a specialized, intensive feeling about intuitions.

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