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

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

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

Love works miracles in stillness.

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.

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

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