If the individual is a unit in a corporate mass, his life is not merely brutish and short, but dull and mechanical.

This is the essential distinction--even opposition--between the painting and the film: the painting is composed subjectively, thefilm objectively. However highly we rate the function of the scenario writer--in actual practice it is rated very low--we must recognize that the film is not transposed directly and freely from the mind by means of a docile medium like paint, but must be cut piece-meal out of the lumbering material of the actual visible world.

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

The great modern heresy in poetry is to confuse the use we make of words in a poem with modalities of speech...For true poetry is never speech but always a song.

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

Great changes in the destiny of mankind can be effected only in the minds of little children.

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