Physics Is An Organized Body Of Knowledge

One Of The Most Obvious Uses Of Literature, I Think, Is Its Encouragement Of Tolerance... Bigots And Fanatics Seldom Have Any Use For The Arts, Because They're So Preoccupied With Their Beliefs And Actions That They Can't See Them Also As Possibilities.

Man Creates What He Calls History As A Screen To Conceal The Workings Of The Apocalypse From Himself.

We Have To Look At The Figures Of Speech A Writer Uses, His Images And Symbols, To Realize That Underneath All The Complexity Of Human Life That Uneasy Stare At An Alien Nature Is Still Haunting Us, And The Problem Of Surmounting It Still With Us.

The Metaphor Of The King As The Shepherd Of His People Goes Back To Ancient Egypt. Perhaps The Use Of This Particular Convention Is Due To The Fact That, Being Stupid, Affectionate, Gregarious, And Easily Stampeded, The Societies Formed By Sheep Are Most Like Human Ones.

In Our Day The Conventional Element In Literature Is Elaborately Disguised By A Law Of Copyright Pretending That Every Work Of Art Is An Invention Distinctive Enough To Be Patented.