The antagonism between life and conscience may be removed in two ways: by a change of life or by a change of conscience.

Perhaps it is even more important to know what one should not think about than what one should think about.

Art should cause violence to be set aside and it is only art that can accomplish this.

If people lacked the capacity to receive the thoughts of the men who preceded them and to pass on to others their own thoughts, men would be like wild beasts. And if men lacked this other capacity of being infected by art, people would be almost more savage still, and, above all, more separated from and more hostile to one another. Therefore the activity of art is a most important one, as important as the activity of speech itself and as generally diffused.

The antagonism between life and conscience may be removed in two ways: by a change of life or by a change of conscience.

If there existed no external means for dimming their consciences, one-half of the men would at once shoot themselves, because to live contrary to one's reason is a most intolerable state, and all men of our time are in such a state.

Before we can study the central issues of life today, we must destroy the prejudices and fallacies born of previous centuries.