People accept a representation in which the elements of wish and fantasy are purposely included but which nevertheless proclaims to represent "the past" and to serve as a guide-rule for life, thereby hopelessly confusing the spheres of knowledge and will.

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.

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

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.

The title of hero is bestowed by the survivors upon the fallen, who themselves know nothing of heroism.

The content of the ideal is a desire to return to the perfection of an imaginary past.

You only live a short time... and you are dead a long time.