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

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

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

Whatever our creed or belief, we all know that there is no way back, that we must fight our way through.

He who wishes to maintain that the past of mankind no longer has any absolute value in lifemust also be ready to deny his ownlife until the present moment, indeed in advance until the last moment, as worthless. He who realizes that culture is the giving of form will also see that the highest forms that it is given to the human spirit to recognize have always been, psychologically considered, such evasions from the present. Considerations such as these do not at all square with the direction of America's mind.

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.

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.