the wide discrepancy between reason and feeling may be unreal; it is not improbable that intellect is a high form of feeling - a specialized, intensive feeling about intuitions.

The seeds of civilization are in every culture, but it is city life that brings them to fruition.

Most new discoveries are suddenly-seen things that were always there. A new idea is a light that illuminates presences which simply had no form before the light fell on them.

The first impression of a work of art is its otherness from reality.

The Past, being in the mode of memory, is closed, inalienable, and irreparable.

Fire is a natural symbol of life and passion, though it is the one element in which nothing can actually live.

The secret of 'fusion' is the fact that the artist's eye sees in nature... an inexhaustible wealth of tension, rhythms, continuities, and contrasts which can be rendered in line and color.

Music is the tonal analogue of emotive life.

The high intellectual value of images, however, lies in the fact that they usually, and perhaps always, fit more than one actual experience.

If a work of art is a projection of feeling, its kinship with organic nature will emerge, no matter through how many transformations, logically and inevitably.

The fairytale is irresponsible; it is frankly imaginary, and its purpose is to gratify wishes, as a dream doth flatter.

We first become aware of freedom or its opposite in our intercourse with others, not in the intercourse with ourselves.

Ambition and poverty are powerful motivators...

The land of wonder is full of lights.

In almost all city governments in America, the small group of people who don't want change are able to block change.

Tibby was shaking her head. "What?" Bailey asked. "Nothing. Just that you suprise me every day," Tibby said. Bailey smiled at her. "I like that you let yourself be suprised.

There is nothing more alluring to man than freedom of conscience, but neither is there anything more agonizing.

Live your life with arms wide open. Today is where your book begins. The rest is still unwritten.

From that house there has come so much life that it ought never to die or fall into ruin... For me that house was a gateway to America.

Some people kiss as if they were eating watermelon

Our Job is not to make young women grateful. It is to make the ungrateful so they keep going. Gratitude never radicalized anybody