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

In Europe art has to a large degree taken the place of religion. In America it seems rather to be science.

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

Science, unguided by a higher abstract principle, freely hands over its secrets to a vastly developed and commercially inspired technology, and the latter, even less restrained by a supreme culture saving principle, with the means of science creates all the instruments of power demanded from it by the organization of Might.

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

A new culture can only grow up in the soil of a purged humanity.

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