The point I am making is that in the more primitive forms of society the individual is merely a unit; in more developed forms of society he is an independent personality.

The modern work of art, as I have said, is a symbol.

These are the sensations and feelings that are gradually blunted by education, staled by custom, rejected in favor of social conformity.

That is why I believe that art is so much more significant than either economics or philosophy. It is the direct measure of man's spiritual vision.

It was Nietzsche who first made us conscious of the significance of the individual as a term in the evolutionary process-in that part of the evolutionary process which has still to take place.

I have not the slightest doubt that this form of individuation represents a higher stage in the evolution of mankind.

To realize that new world we must prefer the values of freedom and equality above all other values - above personal wealth, technical power and nationalism.