Only a creature that can think symbolically about life can conceive of its own death. Our knowledge of death is part of our knowledge of life.

Artistic form is congruent with the dynamic forms of our direct sensuous, mental, and emotional life; works of art are projections of "felt life", as Henry James called it, into spatial, temporal, and poetic structures.

Art is the creation of forms symbolic of human feeling.

If we would have new knowledge, we must get a whole world of new questions.

The development of beings with minds is probably the highest individuation the world has ever known, and its prehistory is the history of life on earth.

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

Feeling, in the broad sense of whatever is felt in any way, as sensory stimulus or inward tension, pain, emotion or intent, is the mark of mentality.