Boredom And Fatigue Are Great Historical Forces.

An Artist Has Every Right - One May Even Say A Duty - To Exhibit His Productions As Prominently As He Can.

Like Rousseau, Whom He Resembles Even More Than He Resembles Voltaire, Shaw Never Gave A Social Form To His Assertiveness, Never Desired To Arrive And To Assimilate Himself, Or Wield Authority As Of Right.

Intellect Has Nothing To Do With Equality Except To Respect It As A Sublime Convention.

Criticism Will Need An Injection Of Humility That Is, A Recognition Of Its Role As Ancillary To The Arts, Needed Only Occasionally In A Temporary Capacity. Since The Critic Exists Only For Introducing And Explaining, He Must Be Readily Intelligible; He Has No Special Vocabulary: Criticism Is In No Way A Science Or A System.

When People Accept Futility And The Absurd As Normal, The Culture Is Decadent.