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

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

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

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.

Every age yearns for a more beautiful world. The deeper the desperation and the depression about the confusing present, the more intense that yearning.

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.

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