I should be at peace. I have understood. Don't some say that peace comes when you understand? I have understood. I should be at peace. Who said that peace derives from the contemplation of order, order understood, enjoyed, realized without residuum, in joy and truimph, the end of effort? All is clear, limpid; the eye rests on the whole and on the parts and sees how the parts have conspired to make the whole; it perceives the center where the lymph flows, the breath, the root of the whys.

If culture did not filter, it would be inane - as inane as the formless, boundless Internet is on its own. And if we all possessed the boundless knowledge of the Web, we would be idiots! Culture is an instrument for making a hierarchical system of intellectual labor.

Hypotyposis is the rhetorical effect by which words succeed in rendering a visual scene.

People are tired of simple things. They want to be challenged.

Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry.

A mystic is a hysteric who has met her confessor before her doctor.

Show not what has been done, but what can be. How beautiful the world would be if there were a procedure for moving through labyrinths.