A contrast between country and city, as fundamental ways of life, reaches back into classical times.

Culture is one of the two or three most complicated words in the English language.

There are no masses; there are only ways of seeing people as masses

To be truly radical is to make hope possible rather than despair inevitable.

What breaks capitalism, all that will ever break capitalism, is capitalists. The faster they run the more strain on their heart.

The human crisis is always a crisis of understanding: what we genuinely understand we can do.

The idea of nature contains, though often unnoticed, an extraordinary amount of human history.

Every aspect of personal life is radically affected by the quality of general life, and yet the general life is seen at its most important in completely personal terms.

The gap between our feelings and our social observation is dangerously wide.

It is not primarily ideas that have a history; it is societies. And then what often seem opposed ideas can in the end be seen as parts of a single social process.

If from poetry we expect a succession of signals for the release of miscellaneous private emotion we are likely to find Tears, Idle Tears valuable.

It's in our biology to trust what we see with our eyes. This makes living in a carefully edited, overproduced and photoshopped world very dangerous.

The problems are here to stay. We need to find a way to deal with them.

The Essence Of Success Is Leading Your Business & Life From The Heart

I'm a football fan, a sports fan, a fan of competition.

There comes a point where we need to stop just pulling people out of the river. We need to go upstream and find out why they're falling in.

Being a chef is the best job in the world.

When I was born, my father wanted to drown me, but my mother persuaded him to let me live in disguise, to see if I could bring any wealth to the household.

It's like running away to join the circus, everyone wants to do it when they're young but then you grow up and get a proper job. But somebody's got to do it or you wouldn't have the circus.

I follow nature as the surest guide, and resign myself with implicit obedience to her sacred ordinances.

The Impersonal God seen through the mists of sense is personal.