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" A man of personality can formulate ideals, but only a man of character can achieve them. "

" Art is pattern informed by sensibility. "

" 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. "

" Creeds and castes, and all forms of intellectual and emotional grouping, belong to the past. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I call religion a natural authority, but it has usually been conceived as a supernatural authority. "

" I can imagine no society which does not embody some method of arbitration. "

" If the individual is a unit in a corporate mass, his life is not merely brutish and short, but dull and mechanical. "

" I have not the slightest doubt that this form of individuation represents a higher stage in the evolution of mankind. "

" I know of no better name than Anarchism. "

" In the evolution of mankind there has always been a certain degree of social coherence. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Man is everywhere still in chains. "

" Morality, as has often been pointed out, is antecedent to religion-it even exists in a rudimentary form among animals. "

" 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. "

" Nobody seriously believes in the social philosophies of the immediate past. "

" Progress is measured by richness and intensity of experience - by a wider and deeper apprehension of the significance and scope of human existence. "

" Progress is measured by the degree of differentiation within a society. "

" 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 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. "

" The characteristic political attitude of today is not one of positive belief, but of despair. "

" The farther a society progresses, the more clearly the individual becomes the antithesis of the group. "

" The modern work of art, as I have said, is a symbol. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The principle of equity first came into evidence in Roman jurisprudence and was derived by analogy from the physical meaning of the word. "

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