The work of art... is an instrument for tilling the human psyche, that it may continue to yield a harvest of vital beauty.

It is already clear, after twenty years of socialism in Russia, that if you do not provide your society with a new religion, it will gradually revert to the old one.

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

The principle of equity first came into evidence in Roman jurisprudence and was derived by analogy from the physical meaning of the word.

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

I call religion a natural authority, but it has usually been conceived as a supernatural authority.

An entertainment is something which distracts us or diverts us from the routine of daily life. It makes us for the time being forget our cares and worries; it interrupts our conscious thoughts and habits, rests our nerves and minds, though it may incidentally exhaust our bodies. Art, on the other hand, though it may divert us from the normal routine of our existence, causes us in some way or other to become conscious of that existence.