“[T]he more one is conscious of one's political bias, the more chance one has of acting politically without sacrificing one's aesthetic and intellectual integrity.”
“In the life of the individual, an aesthetic sensibility is both more authentic and more commendable than a political or religious one.”
“All efforts to make politics aesthetic culminate in one thing, war.”
“Even the aesthetic activities of political opposites are one in their enthusiastic obedience to the rhythm of the iron system.”
“Aesthetics have substantial political consequences. How one views oneself as beautiful or not beautiful or desirable or not desirable has deep consequences in terms of one’s feelings of self-worth and one’s capacity to be a political agent.”
“One must divide one's time between politics and equations. But our equations are much more important to me, because politics is for the present, while our equations are for eternity.”