Social intercourse, with its … hypocrisy … is highly productive of thought-hindering insincerity. - Ernest Dimnet

Every day you waste a chance, many chances in fact, of getting at your innermost consciousness by expressing yourself as you see yourself, and I say it is a pity because it makes you, year after year and day after day more like anybody else and more anonymous.

We all more or less consciously note this. We cannot help observing that all serious conversations gravitate towards philosophy.

Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul.