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Technological Society Has Succeeded In Multiplying The Opportunities For Pleasure, But It Has Great Difficulty In Generating Joy.

The Work Of Art, Just Like Any Fragment Of Human Life Considered In Its Deepest Meaning, Seems To Me Devoid Of Value If It Does Not Offer The Hardness, The Rigidity, The Regularity, The Luster On Every Interior And Exterior Facet, Of The Crystal.

Physics Does Not Change The Nature Of The World It Studies, And No Science Of Behavior Can Change The Essential Nature Of Man, Even Though Both Sciences Yield Technologies With A Vast Power To Manipulate The Subject Matters.

Excessive Economic, Social And Cultural Inequalities Among Peoples Arouse Tensions And Conflicts, And Are A Danger To Peace.

We Must See To It That Enthusiasm For The Future Does Not Give Rise To Contempt For The Past.