For progressive people the present is the beginning of the future. For conservative people the present is the end of the past.

Behind every rational and irrational force in human society there is a social mechanism which determines where it is to appear and what forms it is to take.

The distrust and suspicion which men everywhere evidence toward their adversaries, at all states of historical development, may be regarded as the immediate precursor to the notion of ideology.

I live in an ecotone. Employment must coexist with goofing off. Responsibility must coexist with irresponsibility.

We cannot hope for a society in which formal organized religion dies out. But we can stop behaving as if it was worthy of our collective respect.

Beauty is in the eye of the gazer.

You gotta laugh because if you didn't you'd cry

The black woman had had to struggle against being a person of great strength.

Roger Fry is painting me. It is too like me at present, but he is confident he will be able to alter that. Post-Impressionism is at present confined to my lower lip... and to my chin.

Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is. The only function of a school is to make self-education easier; failing that, it does nothing.

You guys are going somewhere or just going?

I can assure you that those villains will recognize, will discover in appropriate time in the future how stupid they are and how they are pretending things which have never taken place

In an age of acceleration, nothing can be more exhilarating than going slow.