Love works miracles in stillness.

The point I am making is that in the more primitive forms of society the individual is merely a unit; in more developed forms of society he is an independent personality.

The worth of a civilization or a culture is not valued in the terms of its material wealth or military power, but by the quality and achievements of its representative individuals - its philosophers, its poets and its artists.

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

In the evolution of mankind there has always been a certain degree of social coherence.

But all categories of art, idealistic or realistic, surrealistic or constructivist (a new form of idealism) must satisfy a simple test (or they are in no sense works of art): they must persist as objects of contemplation.

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