The paradox is now fully established that the utmost abstractions are the true weapons with which to control our thought of concrete fact.

No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.

The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.

If a dog jumps into your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.

There are no whole truths: All truths are half-truths.

Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.

Religion is the last refuge of human savagery.

Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.

...the self-satisfied dogmatism with which mankind at each period of its history cherishes the delusion of the finality of existing modes of knowledge.

Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.

Symbolism is no mere idle fancy or corrupt degeneration: it is inherent in the very texture of human life.

Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing. The rest is mere sheep herding.

conversion stories are one of the classic Western narratives about the self.

For a city to be beautiful, it must have a mysterious air!

One man's folly is another man's wife.

Thou shalt not steal, except by majority vote.

I will not say that women have no character; rather, they have a new one every day.

A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.

Free... Yes...FREE time Is what retirement brings Leisure, lounging and loafing And other lazy things

Real cultural diversity results from the interchange of ideas, products, and influences, not from the insular development of a single national style.

Loafe with me on the grass—loose the stop from your throat; Not words, not music or rhyme I want—not custom or lecture, not even the best; Only the lull I like, the hum of your valved voice.