The sensitive artist knows that a bitter wind is blowing.

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

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.

It was play rather than work which enabled man to evolve his higher faculties - everything we mean by the word 'culture'.

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

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

Morality, as has often been pointed out, is antecedent to religion-it even exists in a rudimentary form among animals.