You can deny, if you like, nearly all abstractions: justice, beauty, truth, goodness, mind, God. You can deny seriousness, but not play.

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

A crude mind could easily think: something is valid, therefore it is true.

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

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

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.

The things which can make life enjoyable remain the same. They are, now as before, reading, music, fine arts, travel, the enjoyment of nature, sports, fashion, social vanity (knightly orders, honorary offices, gatherings) and the intoxication of the senses.