The truth is that every sheet of blank paper by its very emptiness affirms that nothing is as beautiful as what does not exist.

Disorder is the condition of the mind's fertility; it contains the mind's promise, since its fertility depends upon the unexpected, it depends rather on what we do not know... than what we know.

A limited vocabulary, but one with which you can make numerous combinations, is better than thirty thousand words that only hamper the action of the mind.

Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends some thing.

Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.

The purpose of psychology is to give us wholly novel ideas about the things that we know best.

What Degas called ‘a way of seeing’ must consequently bear a wide enough interpretation to include way of being, power, knowledge, and will.

Man’s great misfortune is that he has no organ, no kind of eyelid or brake, to mask or block a thought, or all thought, when he wants to.

A poet’s work consists less in seeking words for his ideas than in seeking ideas for his words and predominant rhythms.

Peace is a virtual, mute, sustained victory of potential powers against probable greeds.