We are living in a demented world. And we know it. It would not come as a surprise to anyone if tomorrow the madness gave way to afrenzy which would leave our poor Europe in a state of distracted stupor, with engines still turning and flags streaming in the breeze, but with the spirit gone.

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

Culture means control over nature.

Most thoughtful Americans of today seem to have forgotten how strongly their own and immediate predecessors, Emerson, Hawthorne and Whitman, were still preoccupied with the essence behind things.

If we are to preserve culture we must continue to create it.

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.