If a work of art is a projection of feeling, its kinship with organic nature will emerge, no matter through how many transformations, logically and inevitably.

Art is just as comprehensible as science, but in its own terms.

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

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

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.

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.

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.