Most thoughtful Americans of today seem to have forgotten how strongly their own and immediate predecessors, Emerson, Hawthorne and Whitman, were still preoccupied with the essence behind things.

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.

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

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

Revolution as an ideal concept always preserves the essential content of the original thought: sudden and lasting betterment.

Life is made too easy. Mankind's moral fibre is giving way under the softening influence of luxury.

Barbarisation may be defined as a cultural process whereby an attained condition of high value is gradually overrun and supersededby elements of lower quality.