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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.
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Nobody seriously believes in the social philosophies of the immediate past.
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In the evolution of mankind there has always been a certain degree of social coherence.
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I can imagine no society which does not embody some method of arbitration.
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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.
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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.
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A man of personality can formulate ideals, but only a man of character can achieve them.
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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.
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