 But the further step, by means of which a civilization is given its quality or culture, is only attained by a process of cellular division, in the course of which the individual is differentiated, made distinct from and independent of the parent group. |
| To realize that new world we must prefer the values of freedom and equality above all other values - above personal wealth, technical power and nationalism. |
| You might think that it would he the natural desire of every man to develop as an independent personality, but this does not seem to be true. |
| It is already clear, after twenty years of socialism in Russia, that if you do not provide your society with a new religion, it will gradually revert to the old one. |
| The sensitive artist knows that a bitter wind is blowing. |
| We may be sure that out of the ruins of our capitalist civilization a new religion will emerge, just as Christianity emerged from the ruins of the Roman civilization. |
| If the individual is a unit in a corporate mass, his life is not merely brutish and short, but dull and mechanical. |
| It does not seem that the contradiction which exists between the aristocratic function of art and the democratic structure of modern society can ever be resolved. |
| Morality, as has often been pointed out, is antecedent to religion-it even exists in a rudimentary form among animals. |
| A man of personality can formulate ideals, but only a man of character can achieve them. |
| The most general law in nature is equity-the principle of balance and symmetry which guides the growth of forms along the lines of the greatest structural efficiency. |
| There are a few people, but a diminishing number, who still believe that Marxism, as an economic system, off era a coherent alternative to capitalism, and socialism has, indeed, triumphed in one country. |
| Progress is measured by richness and intensity of experience - by a wider and deeper apprehension of the significance and scope of human existence. |
| Nobody seriously believes in the social philosophies of the immediate past. |
| The only sin is ugliness, and if we believed this with all our being, all other activities of the human spirit could be left to take care of themselves. |
| I call religion a natural authority, but it has usually been conceived as a supernatural authority. |
| These groups within a society can he distinguished according as to whether, like an army or an orchestra, they function as a single body; or whether they are united merely to defend their common interests and otherwise function as separate individuals. |
| The assumption is that the right kind of society is an organic being not merely analogous to an organic being, but actually a living structure with appetites and digestions, instincts and passions, intelligence and reason. |
| Man is everywhere still in chains. |
| Creeds and castes, and all forms of intellectual and emotional grouping, belong to the past. |
