Whether the aim is in heaven or on earth, wisdom or wealth, the essential condition of its pursuit and attainment is always security and order.

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

The second fundamental feature of culture is that all culture has an element of striving.

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.

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

Play is a uniquely adaptive act, not subordinate to some other adaptive act, but with a special function of its own in human experience.

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