On how to save a sad, angry and mean society: “We’re overpoliticized while growing increasingly undermoralized, underspiritualized, undercultured. The alternative is to rediscover the humanist code. It is based on the idea that unless you immerse yourself in the humanities, you may never confront the most important question: How should I live my... See more

On what happens to a society when creativity is pushed to the backburner: “ Dogmatists of all kinds - scientific, economic, moral, as well as political - are threatened by the creative freedom of the artist. We cannot escape our anxiety over the fact that the artists together with creative persons of all sorts, are the possible destroyers of our

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