We have to transpose ourselves into this impressionability of mind, into this sensitivity to tears and spiritual repentance, intothis susceptibility, before we can judge how colorful and intensive life was then.

Every work of history constructs contexts and designs, forms in which past reality can be comprehended. History creates comprehensibility primarily by arranging facts meaningfully and only in a very limited sense by establishing strict causal connections.

Physical nature lies at our feet shackled with a hundred chains. What of the control of human nature? Do not point to the triumphsof psychiatry, social services or the war against crime. Domination of human nature can only mean the domination of every man by himself.

A superstition which pretends to be scientific creates a much greater confusion of thought than one which contents itself with simple popular practices.

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

Culture means control over nature.

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