The anthropologists are busy, indeed, and ready to transport us back into the savage forest where all human things ... have their beginnings; but the seed never explains the flower.

A people's literature is the great text-book for real knowledge of them.

When the world is storm-driven and bad things happen, then we need to know all the strong fortresses of the spirit which men have built through the ages.

Great art is the expression of a solution of the conflict between the demands of the world without and that within.

There is no dignity like the dignity of a soul in agony.

When we speak of beauty, we're speaking of something we're more or less indifferent to.

Mind and spirit together make up that which separates us from the rest of the animal world, that which enables a man to know the truth and that which enables him to die for the truth.