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There Is Only One Art, Whose Sole Criterion Is The Power, The Authenticity, The Revelatory Insight, The Courage And Suggestiveness With Which It Seeks Its Truth. ... Thus, From The Standpoint Of The Work And Its Worth It Is Irrelevant To Which Political Ideas The Artist As A Citizen Claims Allegiance, Which Ideas He Would Like To Serve With His Work Or Whether He Holds Any Such Ideas At All.

If I Have Accomplished Anything Good, Then It's Mainly Because I've Been Driven By The Need To Know Whether I Can Accomplish Things I'm Not Sure I Have The Capacity For.

Without Free, Self-respecting, And Autonomous Citizens There Can Be No Free And Independent Nations. Without Internal Peace, That Is, Peace Among Citizens And Between The Citizens And The State, There Can Be No Guarantee Of External Peace.

Sober Perseverance Is More Effective Than Enthusiastic Emotions, Which Are All Too Capable Of Being Transferred, With Little Difficulty, To Something Different Each Day.

The Kind Of Hope That I Often Think About…i Understand Above All As A State Of Mind, Not A State Of The World. Either We Have Hope Within Us, Or We Don’t. It Is A Dimension Of The Soul It’s Not Essentially Dependent Upon Some Particular Observation Of The World Or Estimate Of The Situation. Hope Is Not The Conviction That Something Will Turn Out Well, But The Certainty That Something Makes Sense, Regardless Of How It Turns Out.