 The sense of historical continuity, and a feeling for philosophical rectitude cannot, however, be compromised. |
| The slave may be happy, but happiness is not enough. |
| What I do deny is that you can build any enduring society without some such mystical ethos. |
| Progress is measured by the degree of differentiation within a society. |
| I have not the slightest doubt that this form of individuation represents a higher stage in the evolution of mankind. |
| Art is pattern informed by sensibility. |
| The characteristic political attitude of today is not one of positive belief, but of despair. |
| The principle of equity first came into evidence in Roman jurisprudence and was derived by analogy from the physical meaning of the word. |
| The modern work of art, as I have said, is a symbol. |
| I am not going to claim that modern anarchism has any direct relation to Roman jurisprudence; but I do claim that it has its basis in the laws of nature rather than in the state of nature. |
| The farther a society progresses, the more clearly the individual becomes the antithesis of the group. |
| The worth of a civilization or a culture is not valued in the terms of its material wealth or military power, but by the quality and achievements of its representative individuals - its philosophers, its poets and its artists. |
| My own early experiences in war led me to suspect the value of discipline, even in that sphere where it is so often regarded as the first essential for success. |
| That is why I believe that art is so much more significant than either economics or philosophy. It is the direct measure of man's spiritual vision. |
| The point I am making is that in the more primitive forms of society the individual is merely a unit; in more developed forms of society he is an independent personality. |
| In the evolution of mankind there has always been a certain degree of social coherence. |
| It was Nietzsche who first made us conscious of the significance of the individual as a term in the evolutionary process-in that part of the evolutionary process which has still to take place. |
| I can imagine no society which does not embody some method of arbitration. |
| I know of no better name than Anarchism. |
| Freud has shown one thing very clearly: that we only forget our infancy by burying it in the unconscious; and that the problems of this difficult period find their solution under a disguised form in adult life. |
