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• Play is a uniquely adaptive act, not subordinate to some other adaptive act, but with a special function of its own in…
• If a serious statement is defined as one that may be made in terms of waking life, poetry will never rise to…
• The eternal gulf between being and idea can only be bridged by the rainbow of imagination.
• A superstition which pretends to be scientific creates a much greater confusion of thought than one which contents itself with simple popular…
• Culture must have its ultimate aim in the metaphysical or it will cease to be culture.
• From whichever angle one looks at it, the application of racial theories remains a striking proof of the lowered demands of public…
• History can predict nothing except that great changes in human relationships will never come about in the form in which they have…
• If we are to preserve culture we must continue to create it.
• Whether the aim is in heaven or on earth, wisdom or wealth, the essential condition of its pursuit and attainment is always…
• In Europe art has to a large degree taken the place of religion. In America it seems rather to be science.
• The second fundamental feature of culture is that all culture has an element of striving.
• Play is older than culture, for culture, however inadequately defined, always presupposes human society, and animals have not waited for man to…

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