In order to begin an analysis, there must already be a synthesis present in the mind.

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.

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

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

Without metaphor the handling of general concepts such as culture and civilization becomes impossible, and that of disease and disorder is the obvious one for the case in point. Is not crisis itself a concept we owe to Hippocrates? In the social and cultural domain no metaphor is more apt than the pathological one.

The more the specific feelings of being under obligation range themselves under a supreme principle of human dependence the clearer and more fertile will be the realization of the concept, indispensable to all true culture, of service; from the service of God down to the simple social relationship as between employer and employee.

The eternal gulf between being and idea can only be bridged by the rainbow of imagination.