It will be thought that I am acting strangely in concerning myself at this day with what appears at first sight and simply a well-known method of fortune-telling.

It’s too simplistic to advance the notion of the autonomy of art as a reason for turning away from the public. You can have autonomy and simultaneously have connections with the social and political world

To comprehend an idea, a person must simultaneously accept it as true. Conscious analysis – which, depending on the idea, may occur almost immediately or with considerable effort – allows the mind to reject what it intially accepted as fact.