The Love Of Americans For Their Country

That Is Why I Think, In Defiance Of Plato, That There Is At Once Error And Vulgarity In Saying That Poetry Is A Lie, Except In The Sense That Cocteau Wrote One Day: I Am A Lie Who Always Tells The Truth. The Only Poetry Which Lies Purely And Simply Is Academic, Pseudo-classical, Conceptually Repetitive Poetry, And It Is Not Poetry.

The First Step To Be Taken By Everyone Who Wishes To Act Morally Is To Decide Not To Act According To The General Customs And Doings Of His Fellow-men.

God Does Not Ask For 'religious' Art Or 'catholic' Art. The Art He Wants For Himself Is Art, With All Its Teeth

The Act Of Philosophizing Involves The Character Of The Philosopher.

The Light Of Common Sense Is Fundamentally The Same Light As That Of Science, That Is To Say, The Natural Light Of The Intellect. But In Common Sense This Light Does Not Return Upon Itself By Critical Reflection, And Is Not Perfected By What We Shall Learn To Know As A Scientific Habit.