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

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

The things which can make life enjoyable remain the same. They are, now as before, reading, music, fine arts, travel, the enjoyment of nature, sports, fashion, social vanity (knightly orders, honorary offices, gatherings) and the intoxication of the senses.

No other discipline has its portals so wide open to the general public as history.

Quite apart from any conscious program, the great cultural historians have always been historical morphologists: seekers after theforms of life, thought, custom, knowledge, art.

Play is older than culture, for culture, however inadequately defined, always presupposes human society, and animals have not waited for man to teach them their playing.

The susceptibility of the average modern to pictorial suggestion enables advertising to exploit his lessened power of judgment.