Gratitude Is The Most Exquisite Form Of

Western Humanism Has Religious And Transcendent Sources Without Which It Is Incomprehensible To Itself.

The Division Between The Useful Arts And The Fine Arts Must Not Be Understood In Too Absolute A Manner. In The Humblest Work Of The Craftsmen, If Art Is There, There Is A Concern For Beauty, Through A Kind Of Indirect Repercussion That The Requirements Of The Creativity Of The Spirit Exercise Upon The Production Of An Object To Serve Human Needs.

The Truth Of Practical Intellect Is Understood Not As Conformity To An Extramental Being But As Conformity To A Right Desire; The End Is No Longer To Know What Is, But To Bring Into Existence That Which Is Not Yet.

Art And Poetry Cannot Do Without One Another. Yet The Two Words Are Far From Being Synonymous. By Art I Mean The Creative Or Producing, Work-making Activity Of The Human Mind. By Poetry I Mean, Not The Particular Art Which Consists In Writing Verses, But A Process Both More General And More Primary: That Intercommunication Between The Inner Being Of Things And The Inner Being Of The Human Self Which Is A Kind Of Divination (as Was Realized In Ancient Times; The Latin Vates Was Both A Poet And A Diviner). Poetry, In This Sense, Is The Secret Life Of Each And All Of The Arts.

Nothing Is More Vain Than To Seek To Unite Men By A Philosophic Minimum.