An aristocratic culture does not advertise its emotions. In its forms of expression it is sober and reserved. Its general attitude is stoic.

The repudiation of the primacy of understanding means the repudiation of the norms of judgment as well, and hence the abandonment of all ethical standards.

Do you know anything that in all its innocence is more humiliating than the funny pages of a Sunday newspaper in America?

Play is a uniquely adaptive act, not subordinate to some other adaptive act, but with a special function of its own in human experience.

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

The art of watching has become mere skill at rapid apperception and understanding of continuously changing visual images. The younger generation has acquired this cinematic perception to an amazing degree.

Without claiming superiority of intellectual over visual understanding, one is nevertheless bound to admit that the cinema allowsa number of æsthetic-intellectual means of perception to remain unexercised which cannot but lead to a weakening of judgment.