We adore chaos because we love to produce order.

The regular division of the plane into congruent figures evoking an association in the observer with a familiar natural object is one of these hobbies or probl…

What I give form to in daylight is only one per cent of what I have seen in darkness.

Talent and all that are really for the most part just baloney. Any schoolboy with a little aptitude can perhaps draw better than I; but what he lacks in most c…

Man is constituted as a speculative being; he contemplates the world, and the objects around him, not with a passive indifferent eye, but as a system disposed …

The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy, the building of a house, the writing of a novel, the demolition of a bridge, and, eminently, t…

We live in a beautiful and orderly world, not in a chaos without norms, as we sometimes seem to.