I consider the best life that which is most built on creative impulses, and the worst that which is most inspired by love of possession.
Source: Preface to Principles of Social Construction, 1916
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The best life is the one in which the creative impulses play the largest part and the possessive imuplses the smallest.
Source: Political Ideals, 1917, chapt.1