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

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 continual pursuit of meanings-wider, clearer, more negotiable, more articulate meanings- is philosophy.

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

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.

Music is our myth of the inner life.

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