People are so overwhelmed with the prestige of their instruments that they consider their personal judgement of hardly any account.

So-called austerity, the stoic injunction, is the path towards universal destruction. It is the old, the fatal, competitive path. Pull in your belt is a slogan closely related to gird up your loins, or the guns-butter metaphor.

When we say 'science' we can either mean any manipulation of the inventive and organizing power of the human intellect: or we can mean such an extremely different thing as the religion of science, the vulgarized derivative from this pure activity manipulated by a sort of priestcraft into a great religious and political weapon.

The artist is always engaged in writing a detailed history of the future because he is the only person aware of the nature of the present.

It is more comfortable for me, in the long run, to be rude than polite.

No American worth his salt should go looking around for a root. I advance this in all modesty, as a not unreasonable opinion.

Spain is an overflow of sombreness . . . a strong and threatening tide of history meets you at the frontier.