The failure of art is, as we have said, not a complete failure. Substantial truth is revealed to us, we are not cheated of that; but it is revealed o… - R. G. Collingwood

The progressive intellectualization of language, its progressive conversion by the work of grammar and logic into a scientific symbolism, ... represents not a progressive drying-up of emotion, but its progressive articulation and specialization. ... We are acquiring new emotions and new means of expressing them.

In each case an error as to the true nature and meaning of life reacts on that life itself and produces not indeed a reality corresponding to the error — which would in that case cease to be an error — but a reality of a one-sided kind, showing within itself various strains and symptoms of faulty equilibrium resulting from the error.

Every one knows that our civilization is in difficulties, and the stupidity of the suggested remedies only indicates the gravity of the disease, for a sick society has to diagnose and cure its own complaint, and the worse the complaint, the wilder the diagnosis is likely to be But no one denies the disease.