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.

Music is our myth of the inner life.

Art is the objectification of feeling, and the subjectification of nature.

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

Philosophical questions are not by their nature insoluble. They are, indeed, radically different from scientific questions, because they concern the implications and other interrelations of ideas, not the order of physical events; their answers are interpretations instead of factual reports, and their function is to increase not our knowledge of nature, but our understanding of what we know.

common sense is a very tricky instrument; it is as deceptive as it is indispensable.