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

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.

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

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.

The sense of historical continuity, and a feeling for philosophical rectitude cannot, however, be compromised.

The sensitive artist knows that a bitter wind is blowing.

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