When the world was half a thousand years younger all events had much sharper outlines than now. The distance between sadness and joy, between good and bad fortune, seemed to be much greater than for us; every experience had that degree of directness and absoluteness which joy and sadness still have in the mind of a child

A new culture can only grow up in the soil of a purged humanity.

History is the interpretation of the significance that the past has for us.

From whichever angle one looks at it, the application of racial theories remains a striking proof of the lowered demands of public opinion upon the purity of critical judgment.

Do you know anything that in all its innocence is more humiliating than the funny pages of a Sunday newspaper in America?

Play is a uniquely adaptive act, not subordinate to some other adaptive act, but with a special function of its own in human experience.

It is an evil world. The fires of hatred and violence burn fiercely. Evil is powerful, the devil covers a darkened earth with hisblack wings. And soon the end of the world is expected. But mankind does not repent, the church struggles, and the preachers and poets warn and lament in vain.