Culture requires in the first place a certain balance of material and spiritual values.

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

One does not realize the historical sensation as a re-experiencing, but as an understanding that is closely related to the understanding of music, or rather of the world by means of music.

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

In Europe art has to a large degree taken the place of religion. In America it seems rather to be science.