The principle of equity first came into evidence in Roman jurisprudence and was derived by analogy from the physical meaning of the word.

It is already clear, after twenty years of socialism in Russia, that if you do not provide your society with a new religion, it will gradually revert to the old one.

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

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.

The modern work of art, as I have said, is a symbol.

A man of personality can formulate ideals, but only a man of character can achieve them.

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