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

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

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

Whether the aim is in heaven or on earth, wisdom or wealth, the essential condition of its pursuit and attainment is always security and order.

A crude mind could easily think: something is valid, therefore it is true.

If we are to preserve culture we must continue to create it.

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