The seeds of civilization are in every culture, but it is city life that brings them to fruition.

A philosophy is characterized more by the formulation of its problem than by its solution of them.

What is artistically good is whatever articulates and presents feeling to our understanding.

value exists only where there is consciousness. Where nothing ever is felt, nothing matters.

Tragedy dramatizes human life as potentiality and fulfillment. Its virtual future, or Destiny, is therefore quite different from that created in comedy. Comic Destiny is Fortune - what the world will bring, and the man will take or miss, encounter or escape; tragic Destiny is what the man brings, and the world will demand of him. That is his Fate.

As comedy presents the vital rhythm of self-preservation, tragedy exhibits that of self-consummation.

Art is the creation of forms symbolic of human feeling.