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

You might think that it would he the natural desire of every man to develop as an independent personality, but this does not seem to be true.

The slave may be happy, but happiness is not enough.

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.

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

The sensitive artist knows that a bitter wind is blowing.

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.