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Art, Creativity, Beauty
and Make Life Mean Something
A Free Man's Worship, inWhy I Am Not A Christian, (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1957) 111.
But passive renunciation is not the whole of wisdom; for not by
renunciation alone can we build a temple for the worship of our own
ideals. Haunting foreshadowings of the temple appear in the realm of
imagination, in music, in architecture, in the untroubled kingdom of
reason, and in the golden sunset magic of lyrics, where beauty shines
and glows, remote from the touch of sorrow, remote from the fear of
change, remote from the failures and disenchantments of the world of
fact. In the contemplation of these things the vision of heaven will
shape itself in our hearts, giving at once a touchstone to judge the
world about us, and an inspiration by which to fashion to our needs to
whatever is not incapable of serving as a stone in the sacred temple.

