“Involuntary organizations ought to be tolerant, but voluntary organizations, so far as the fundamental purpose of their existence is concerned, must be intolerant or else cease to exist.”
“Tragic art is the organization of a small portion of an otherwise meaningless world that gives purpose to an individual existence.”
“It must be remembered that no art lives by nature, only by acts of voluntary attention on the part of human individuals. When these are not made it ceases to exist.”
“Knowledge exists, and good will exists; but both remain impotent until they possess the proper organs for making themselves heard.”
“No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality.”
“Violent, irrational, intolerant, allied to racism and tribalism and bigotry, invested in ignorance and hostile to free inquiry, contemptuous of women and coercive toward children: organized religion ought to have a great deal on its conscience.”