Culture means control over nature.

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.

Every age yearns for a more beautiful world. The deeper the desperation and the depression about the confusing present, the more intense that yearning.

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

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

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

The art of watching has become mere skill at rapid apperception and understanding of continuously changing visual images. The younger generation has acquired this cinematic perception to an amazing degree.