“Keeing busy" is the remedy for all the ills in America. It's also the means by which the creative impulse is destroyed.”
“The urge to destroy is also a creative urge.”
“He demonstrated that there was no such thing as free will, since men's creative impulses were determined, as all else, by the economic structure of the epoch in which they lived.”
“I am...I am constantly moving in the direction of higher evolutionary impulses, creativity, abstraction, and meaning.”
“The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.”
“Americans see democracy as a remedy for all ills-to be taken three times daily like prescription medicine. It works for them. Ergo - it should work for the world. What America naïvely forgets is that for democracy to function, most of a populace must have something personally that is worth preserving.”