The art of watching has become mere skill at rapid apperception and understanding of continuously changing visual images. The younger generation has acquired this cinematic perception to an amazing degree.

The new knowledge has not yet settled in culture. It has not yet been integrated in a new cosmic conception.

Culture means control over nature.

Culture must have its ultimate aim in the metaphysical or it will cease to be culture.

A superstition which pretends to be scientific creates a much greater confusion of thought than one which contents itself with simple popular practices.

The eternal gulf between being and idea can only be bridged by the rainbow of imagination.

Every age yearns for a more beautiful world. The deeper the desperation and the depression about the confusing present, the more intense that yearning.