The Truth Of Practical Intellect Is Understood

Thus Society Is Born, As Something Required By Nature, And (because This Nature Is Human Nature) As Something Accomplished Through A Work Of Reason And Will, And Freely Consented To. Man Is A Political Animal, Which Means That The Human Person Craves Political Life, Communal Life, Not Only With Regard To The Family Community, But With Regard To The Civil Community.

Art Is A Creative Effort Of Which The Wellsprings Lie In The Spirit, And Which Brings Us At Once The Most Intimate Self Of The Artist And The Secret Concurrences Which He Has Perceived In Things By Means Of A Vision Or Intuition All His Own, And Not To Be Expressed In Ideas And In Words-expressible Only In The Work Of Art.

To Philosophize Man Must Put His Whole Soul Into Play, In Much The Same Manner That To Run He Must Use His Heart And Lungs.

The Great And Admirable Strength Of America Consists In This, That America Is Truly The American People.

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.