I do not want my house to be walled in on sides and my windows to be stuffed. I want the cultures of all the lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible. But I refuse to be blown off my feet by any.

I do not believe in the doctrine of the greatest good of the greatest number. The only real, dignified, human doctrine is the greatest good of all.

I don't know which is the greater task: to decentralise a top-heavy civilization or to prevent an ancient civilization from becoming centralised and top-heavy.…

I consider western Christianity in its practical working a negation of Christ's Christianity.

We are on the cusp of this time where I can say, 'I speak as a citizen of the world' without others saying, 'God, what a nut.'

Our civilization has essentially globalized only the surfaces of our lives. But our inner self continues to have a life of its own. And the fewer answers the e…

Cities have sexes: London is a man, Paris a woman, and New York a well-adjusted transsexual.