"Those who are practising ‘stopping’ should retire to some quiet place and there, sitting erect, earnestly seek tranquilize and concentrate the mind."

"In all the arts whose raw material is of a temporal nature, the primary aim of the artist is to spatialize time."

"What Epicurus, who never travelled except when he was banished, sought in his own garden, our tourists seek abroad."

"My own sensibility reacts but little externally. It is occupied either by confused inward impressions, or by the ideas which strike me."

"Nothing could be more chimerical than the notion that Man is the same thing as the Economic Man."

" By exhibiting common things in an uncommon light, its flame makes manifest the living mystery and inexplicable marvel of mere existence."

"Correct or incorrect, relevant or meaningless, knowledge and pseudo-knowledge are as common as dirt and are therefore taken for granted."

"Of all that I have ever seen this Calvary of Breughel’s is the most suggestive and, dramatically, the most appalling."

"Prolong the leisure ... and there will have to be more cinemas, more newspapers, more bad fiction, more radios and more cheap automobiles."

"Throughout the Middle Ages this demon was known as Acedia, or, in English, Accidie. Monks were still his favourite victims..."

"The name is still the same; but the thing is almost unrecognizably different from what Charles Dickens meant by ‘Christmas'."

"Dans le monde où nous vivons, d'immenses forces tendent vers l'établissement d'un pouvoir centralisé et d'une société enrégimentée."

"To the three physical components Sheldon gives the names of endomorphy, mesomorphy and ectomorphy."

"The time of which we have knowledge is artificial, machine-made time."