The characteristic political attitude of today is not one of positive belief, but of despair.
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.
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.
The slave may be happy, but happiness is not enough.
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.
I call religion a natural authority, but it has usually been conceived as a supernatural authority.
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.
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.
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.