Whatever our creed or belief, we all know that there is no way back, that we must fight our way through.

A crude mind could easily think: something is valid, therefore it is true.

You can deny, if you like, nearly all abstractions: justice, beauty, truth, goodness, mind, God. You can deny seriousness, but not play.

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

Whatever our creed or belief, we all know that there is no way back, that we must fight our way through.

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.

Systematic philosophical and practical anti-intellectualism such as we are witnessing appears to be something truly novel in the history of human culture.