The content of the ideal is a desire to return to the perfection of an imaginary past.

Culture requires in the first place a certain balance of material and spiritual values.

You only live a short time... and you are dead a long time.

If the Americans, in addition to the eagle and the Stars and Stripes and the more unofficial symbols of bison, moose and Indian, should ever need another emblem, one which is friendly and pleasant, then I think they should choose the grapefruit. Or rather the half grapefruit, for this fruit only comes in halves, I believe. Practically speaking, it is always yellow, always just as fresh and well served. And it always comes at the same, still hopeful hour of the morning.

The modern city hardly knows a pure darkness or true silence anymore, nor does it know the effect of a single small light or that of a lonely distant shout.

History can predict nothing except that great changes in human relationships will never come about in the form in which they have been anticipated.

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