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.

Culture means control over nature.

William James once said: "Progress is a terrible thing." It is more than that: it is also a highly ambiguous notion. For who knowsbut that a little further on the way a bridge may not have collapsed or a crevice split the earth?

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

History is the interpretation of the significance that the past has for us.

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

What the study of history and artistic creation have in common is a mode of forming images.