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.

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

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.

History can predict nothing except that great changes in human relationships will never come about in the form in which they have been anticipated.

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

Culture must have its ultimate aim in the metaphysical or it will cease to be culture.