Who said “Whit Meynell was a sociologist; he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life…”?

“To understand the true quality of people, you must look into their minds, and examine their pursuits and aversions.”

“Social movements are at once the symptoms and the instruments of progress. Ignore them and statesmanship is irrelevant; fail to use them and it is weak.”

“No sociologist should think himself too good, even in his old age, to make tens of thousands of quite trivial computations in his head and perhaps for months at a time. One cannot with impunity try to transfer this task entirely to mechanical assistants if one wishes to figure something, even though the final result is often small indeed.”

“Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end.”

“But fantasy kills imagination, pornography is death to art.”

“I daresay anything can be made holy by being sincerely worshipped.”

“Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference.”

“All art is the struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous.”

“Bereavement is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of the unbereaved.”