To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization.

There is a kind of intellectual provincialism in the dogma that 'life is just one damned thing after another.' Human affairs do not become intelligible until t…

We have been God-like in our planned breeding of our domesticated plants and animals, but we have been rabbit-like in our unplanned breeding of ourselves.

The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play.