We have learned that history is something that takes no notice whatever of our expectations.

All world-improvers are Socialists. And consequently there are no Classical world-improvers.

It is the Late city that first defies the land, contradicts Nature in the lines of its silhouette, denies all Nature. It wants to be something different from and higher than Nature. These high-pitched gables, these Baroque cupolas, spires, and pinnacles, neither are, nor desire to be, related with anything in Nature. And then begins the gigantic megalopolis, the city-as-world, which suffers nothing beside itself and sets about annihilating the country picture.

One cannot learn how to be creative by reading Marx. Either one is creative or one is not.

And the National Socialists believe that they can afford to ignore the world or oppose it, and build their castles-in-the-air without creating a possibly silent, but very palpable reaction from abroad.

When the ordinary thought of a highly cultivated people begins to regard 'having children' as a question of pro's and con's, the great turning point has come.

It doesn't really matter what one writes into a constitution. The important thing is what the collective instinct eventually makes of it.