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

Life is made too easy. Mankind's moral fibre is giving way under the softening influence of luxury.

Physical nature lies at our feet shackled with a hundred chains. What of the control of human nature? Do not point to the triumphsof psychiatry, social services or the war against crime. Domination of human nature can only mean the domination of every man by himself.

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

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

The spirit of playful competition is, as a social impulse, older than culture itself and pervades all life like a veritable ferment. Ritual grew up in sacred play; poetry was born in play and nourished on play; music and dancing were pure play....We have to conclude, therefore, that civilization is, in its earliest phases, played. It does not come from play...it arises in and as play, and never leaves it.

The new knowledge has not yet settled in culture. It has not yet been integrated in a new cosmic conception.