Every age yearns for a more beautiful world. The deeper the desperation and the depression about the confusing present, the more intense that yearning.
In Europe art has to a large degree taken the place of religion. In America it seems rather to be science.
The susceptibility of the average modern to pictorial suggestion enables advertising to exploit his lessened power of judgment.
The second fundamental feature of culture is that all culture has an element of striving.
An aristocratic culture does not advertise its emotions. In its forms of expression it is sober and reserved. Its general attitude is stoic.
These are strange times. Reason, which once combatted faith and seemed to have conquered it, now has to look to faith to save it from dissolution.
Whether the aim is in heaven or on earth, wisdom or wealth, the essential condition of its pursuit and attainment is always security and order.
Culture must have its ultimate aim in the metaphysical or it will cease to be culture.
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.
Do you know anything that in all its innocence is more humiliating than the funny pages of a Sunday newspaper in America?