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

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

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

Play is older than culture, for culture, however inadequately defined, always presupposes human society, and animals have not waited for man to teach them their playing.

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.

People accept a representation in which the elements of wish and fantasy are purposely included but which nevertheless proclaims to represent "the past" and to serve as a guide-rule for life, thereby hopelessly confusing the spheres of knowledge and will.

The title of hero is bestowed by the survivors upon the fallen, who themselves know nothing of heroism.