Give the people a new word and they think they have a new fact.

The condition every art requires is, not so much freedom from restriction, as freedom from adulteration and from the intrusion of foreign matter.

Nearly all the Escapists in the long past have managed their own budget and their social relations so unsuccessfully that I wouldn't want them for my landlords…

Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

We should always be prepared so as never to err to believe that what I see as white is black, if the hierarchic Church defines it thus.

Appearances to the mind are of four kinds. Things either are what they appear to be; or they neither are, nor appear to be; or they are, and do not appear to b…

[W]ords are not (except in their own little corner) facts or things: we need therefore to prise them off the world, to hold them apart from and against it, so …