Revolt, it will be said, implies violence; but this is an outmoded, an incompetent conception of revolt. The most effective form of revolt in this violent world we live in is non-violence.

An enormous amount of art and literature is erotic in the sense that it stimulates vague sexual emotions, but it has no pornographic intention or effect because "it leaves everything to the imagination." The consumer has to invent his own images, and it is felt, I do not know with what justification, that there is no harm in this.

The farther a society progresses, the more clearly the individual becomes the antithesis of the group.

The sensitive artist knows that a bitter wind is blowing.

Creeds and castes, and all forms of intellectual and emotional grouping, belong to the past.

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.

The only sin is ugliness, and if we believed this with all our being, all other activities of the human spirit could be left to take care of themselves.