“In my view, it is the most important function of art and science to awaken this religious feeling and keep it alive in those who are receptive to it.”

“How can cosmic religious feeling be communicated from one person to another, if it can give rise to no definite notion of a God and no theology? In my view, it is the most important function of art and science to awaken this feeling and keep it alive in those who are receptive to it.”

“The good qualities in our soul are most successfully and forcefully awakened by the power of art. Just as science is the intellect of the world, art is its soul.”

“One great function of the arts is to keep ideals alive in a culture that does not yet realize them.”

“Being Mistreated is the most important condition of mortality, for eternity itself depends on how we view those who mistreat us.”

“It isn’t only art that is incompatible with happiness, it’s also science. Science is dangerous, we have to keep it most carefully chained and muzzled.”