The more perfect our means of direct experience, the more easily we are caught by the dangerous illusion that perceiving is tantamount to knowing and understanding.

All perceiving is also thinking, all reasoning is also intuition, all observation is also invention.

Entropy theory, on the other hand, is not concerned with the probability of succession in a series of items but with the overall distribution of kinds of items in a given arrangement.

The least touchable object in the world is the eye.

Now equilibrium is the very opposite of disorder.

The arts are neglected because they are based on perception, and perception is disdained because it is not assumed to involve thought.

Once it is recognized that productive thinking in any area of cognition is perceptual thinking, the central function of art in general education will become evident.

The arts, as a reflection of human existence at its highest, have always and spontaneously lived up to this demand of plenitude. No mature style of art in any culture has ever been simple.

Every act is a visual judgement.

Good art theory must smell of the studio, although its language should differ from the household talk of painters and sculptors.

Order is a necessary condition for making a structure function. A physical mechanism, be it a team of laborers, the body of an animal, or a machine, can work only if it is in physical order.

Sometimes it takes great suffering to pierce the soul and open it up to greatness

There are a thousand thousand reasons to live this life, everyone of them sufficient

I believe there's an inner power that makes winners or losers. And the winners are the ones who really listen to the truth of their hearts.

I'm the basketball version of a gravedigger.

Obviously those who burn to be professional jesters mean that they want to be successful comedians. And those are always an elite, microscopic portion of the population. But oh, how they try.

Donald Trump is basically giving voice to a lot of people who have felt that they were voiceless.

That which we do not call education is more precious than that which we call so.

All loss, all pain, is particular; the universe remains to the heart unhurt.

I tell people that I'm a Christian, but I don't think it's giving an insight into who I am or what I'm about.

The future's here already. It's just unevenly distributed.