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

A new culture can only grow up in the soil of a purged humanity.

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

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.

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

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

We are living in a demented world. And we know it. It would not come as a surprise to anyone if tomorrow the madness gave way to afrenzy which would leave our poor Europe in a state of distracted stupor, with engines still turning and flags streaming in the breeze, but with the spirit gone.