No university ought to be merely a national institution....The universities should have their common ideals, they should have their common obligations toward each other. They should be independent of the governments of the countries in which they are situated. They should not be institutions for the training of an efficient bureaucracy, or for equipping scientists to get the better of foreign scientists; they should stand for the preservation of learning, for the pursuit of truth, and in so far as men are capable of it, the attainment of wisdom.

Distracted from distraction by distraction

All art emulates the condition of ritual. That is what it comes from and to that it must always return for nourishment.

What we know of other people's only our memory of the moments during which we knew them.

Every moment is a new and shocking transvaluation of all we have ever been.

We see the light but see not whence it comes. O Light Invisible, we glorify Thee!

Stand on the highest pavement of the stair- Lean on a garden urn- Weave, weave the sunlight in your hair.