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

Culture must have its ultimate aim in the metaphysical or it will cease to be culture.

If a serious statement is defined as one that may be made in terms of waking life, poetry will never rise to the level of seriousness. It lies beyond seriousness, on that more primitive and original level where the child, the animal, the savage, and the seer belong, in the region of dream, enchantment, ecstasy, laughter. To understand poetry we must be capable of donning the child's soul like a magic cloak and of forsaking man's wisdom for the child's.

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

In order to begin an analysis, there must already be a synthesis present in the mind.

William James once said: "Progress is a terrible thing." It is more than that: it is also a highly ambiguous notion. For who knowsbut that a little further on the way a bridge may not have collapsed or a crevice split the earth?

One does not realize the historical sensation as a re-experiencing, but as an understanding that is closely related to the understanding of music, or rather of the world by means of music.