Had Greek civilization never existed ... we would never have become fully conscious.

Let all your thinks be thanks.

There are three cardinal rules - don't take somebody else's boyfriend unless you've been specifically invited to do so, don't take a drink without being asked, and keep a scrupulous accounting in financial matters.

The eye likes novelty, but the ear craves familiarity.

The trees encountered on a country stroll Reveal a lot about that country's soul ... A culture is no better than its woods.

What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish.

Most people call something profound, not because it is near some important truth but because it is distant from ordinary life. Thus, darkness is profound to the eye, silence to the ear; what-is-not is the profundity of what-is.