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A superstition which pretends to be scientific creates a much greater confusion of thought than one which contents itself with simple popular... →
We can't put up a protectionist dam on our own against the neo-liberal world market either. However, we can try, together with our European... →
History is the interpretation of the significance that the past has for us.
Culture means control over nature.
If we are to preserve culture we must continue to create it.
History can predict nothing except that great changes in human relationships will never come about in the form in which they have been anticipated.
In Europe art has to a large degree taken the place of religion. In America it seems rather to be science.
Life is made too easy. Mankind's moral fibre is giving way under the softening influence of luxury.
History creates comprehensibility primarily by arranging facts meaningfully and only in a very limited sense by establishing strict causal... →
From whichever angle one looks at it, the application of racial theories remains a striking proof of the lowered demands of public opinion upon the... →
It is the goal of the American university to be the brains of the republic.
The susceptibility of the average modern to pictorial suggestion enables advertising to exploit his lessened power of judgment.
Do you know anything that in all its innocence is more humiliating than the funny pages of a Sunday newspaper in America?