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

I call religion a natural authority, but it has usually been conceived as a supernatural authority.

Art is always the index of social vitality, the moving finger that records the destiny of a civilization. A wise statesman should keep an anxious eye on this graph, for it is more significant than a decline in exports or a fall in the value of a nation's currency.

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.

I can imagine no society which does not embody some method of arbitration.

The assumption is that the right kind of society is an organic being not merely analogous to an organic being, but actually a living structure with appetites and digestions, instincts and passions, intelligence and reason.

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.