Christ...an Anarchist Who Succeeded. That's

The Great Christian Art Did Not Die Because All Possible Forms Had Been Used Up; It Died Because Faith Was Being Transformed Into Piety. Now, The Same Conquest Of The Outside World That Brought In Our Modern Individualism, So Different From That Of The Renaissance, Is By Way Of Relativizing The Individual. It Is Plain To See That Man's Faculty Of Transformation, Which Began By A Remaking Of The Natural World, Has Ended By Calling Man Himself Into Question.

The Thrill Of Creation Which We Experience Which We Experience When We See A Masterpiece Is Not Unlike The Feeling Of The Artist Who Created It; Such A Work Is A Fragment Of The World Which He Has Annexed And Which Belongs To Him Alone.

In The Course Of History, All Empires Have Been Created With Premeditation, By An Effort Often Sustained Over Several Generations. Every Power Has Been Roman To A Degree. The United States Is The First Nation To Become The Most Powerful In The World Without Having Sought To Be So. Its Exceptional Energy And Organization Have Never Been Oriented Toward Conquest.

What Is Man? A Miserable Little Pile Of Secrets.

Our Civilization ... Is Not Devaluing Its Awareness Of The Unknowable; Nor Is It Deifying It. It Is The First Civilization That Has Severed It From Religion And Superstition. In Order To Question It.