The eternal gulf between being and idea can only be bridged by the rainbow of imagination.

History is the interpretation of the significance that the past has for us.

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

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

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.

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

If, then, this civilization is to be saved, if it is not to be submerged by centuries of barbarism, but to secure the treasures ofits inheritance on new and more stable foundations, there is indeed need for those now living fully to realize how far the decay has already progressed.