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

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

The second fundamental feature of culture is that all culture has an element of striving.

Systematic philosophical and practical anti-intellectualism such as we are witnessing appears to be something truly novel in the history of human culture.

The susceptibility of the average modern to pictorial suggestion enables advertising to exploit his lessened power of judgment.

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

There are no instances known to me of cultures having forsaken Truth or renounced the understanding in its widest sense.