The sensitive artist knows that a bitter wind is blowing.

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.

What I do deny is that you can build any enduring society without some such mystical ethos.

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.

The sense of historical continuity, and a feeling for philosophical rectitude cannot, however, be compromised.

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

Freud has shown one thing very clearly: that we only forget our infancy by burying it in the unconscious; and that the problems of this difficult period find their solution under a disguised form in adult life.