A Storm Breaks Trees. It Only Bends

The Intellectual Is Not Defined By Professional Group And Type Of Occupation. Nor Are Good Upbringing And A Good Family Enough In Themselves To Produce An Intellectual. An Intellectual Is A Person Whose Interest In And Preoccupation With The Spiritual Side Of Life Are Insistent And Constant And Not Forced By External Circumstances, Even Flying In The Face Of Them. An Intellectual Is A Person Whose Thought Is Nonimitative.

If We Don't Know Our Own History, Then We Simply Will Have To Endure All Of The Same Mistakes, All Of The Same Sacrifices, All Of The Same Absurdities Over Again - Times Ten.

We Will Die, But Art Will Remain.

On The Way From The Renaissance To Our Days We Have Enriched Our Experience, But We Have Lost The Concept Of A Supreme Complete Entity Which Used To Restrain Our Passions And Our Irresponsibility. We Have Placed Too Much Hope In Political And Social Reforms, Only To Find Out That We Were Being Deprived Of Our Most Precious Possession: Our Spiritual Life. In The East, It Is Destroyed By The Dealings And Machinations Of The Ruling Party. In The West, Commercial Interests Tend To Suffocate It. This Is The Real Crisis.

Without Any Censorship, In The West Fashionable Trends Of Thought And Ideas Are Carefully Separated From Those Which Are Not Fashionable; Nothing Is Forbidden, But What Is Not Fashionable Will Hardly Ever Find Its Way Into Periodicals Or Books Or Be Heard In Colleges. Legally Your Researchers Are Free, But They Are Conditioned By The Fashion Of The Day.