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

Without claiming superiority of intellectual over visual understanding, one is nevertheless bound to admit that the cinema allowsa number of æsthetic-intellectual means of perception to remain unexercised which cannot but lead to a weakening of judgment.

Science, unguided by a higher abstract principle, freely hands over its secrets to a vastly developed and commercially inspired technology, and the latter, even less restrained by a supreme culture saving principle, with the means of science creates all the instruments of power demanded from it by the organization of Might.

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

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

William James once said: "Progress is a terrible thing." It is more than that: it is also a highly ambiguous notion. For who knowsbut that a little further on the way a bridge may not have collapsed or a crevice split the earth?

Do you know anything that in all its innocence is more humiliating than the funny pages of a Sunday newspaper in America?