One can bear anything of which one is able to conceive.

All persistent practices in art have a creative function. They may serve several ends, but the chief one is the shaping of the work.

One can bear anything of which one is able to conceive.

the wide discrepancy between reason and feeling may be unreal; it is not improbable that intellect is a high form of feeling - a specialized, intensive feeling about intuitions.

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

Music is the tonal analogue of emotive life.

Ritual is the most primitive reflection of serious thought, a slow deposit, as it were, of people's imaginative insight into life.