The content of the ideal is a desire to return to the perfection of an imaginary past.

Play is older than culture, for culture, however inadequately defined, always presupposes human society, and animals have not waited for man to teach them their playing.

Culture arises and unfolds in and as play... culture itself bears the character of play.

Play is a uniquely adaptive act, not subordinate to some other adaptive act, but with a special function of its own in human experience.

Every age yearns for a more beautiful world. The deeper the desperation and the depression about the confusing present, the more intense that yearning.

You can deny, if you like, nearly all abstractions: justice, beauty, truth, goodness, mind, God. You can deny seriousness, but not play.

Educators are aware that they can reach the youth only by making use of gang spirit and guiding it, not by working against it.

The eternal gulf between being and idea can only be bridged by the rainbow of imagination.

If we are to preserve culture we must continue to create it.

The modern city hardly knows a pure darkness or true silence anymore, nor does it know the effect of a single small light or that of a lonely distant shout.

Quite apart from any conscious program, the great cultural historians have always been historical morphologists: seekers after theforms of life, thought, custom, knowledge, art.

Men love women who are courageous for it means they can go all the way with him in his pursuit of his good dreams and intentions.

Show me a little bit of your soul under all those pretty words you spill, and I promise you I will drink every last drop.

Do not ever fear your enemies, who attack you relentlessly, But do ever be afraid of the friends who flatter you habitually.[231] - 4 (Thoughts)

Anyone deserves a second chance, but not everyone deserves a second chance.

Capital is past savings accumulated for future production.

The precondition to freedom is security.

Creativity is part sweat - not just beads of it, but sometimes buckets.

The sort of morality which the priests inculcate is a very subtle policy, far finer than the politicians', and the world is very successfully ruled by them as the policemen.

Whence arises all that order and beauty we see in the world?

I ain't no movie star, man. I'm a booty star.