A superstition which pretends to be scientific creates a much greater confusion of thought than one which contents itself with simple popular practices.

It is impossible to strive for the heroic life. The title of hero is bestowed by the survivors upon the fallen, who themselves know nothing of heroism.

You only live a short time... and you are dead a long time.

It is the goal of the American university to be the brains of the republic.

Systematic philosophical and practical anti-intellectualism such as we are witnessing appears to be something truly novel in the history of human culture.

The repudiation of the primacy of understanding means the repudiation of the norms of judgment as well, and hence the abandonment of all ethical standards.

History creates comprehensibility primarily by arranging facts meaningfully and only in a very limited sense by establishing strict causal connections.

A superstition which pretends to be scientific creates a much greater confusion of thought than one which contents itself with simple popular practices.

In Europe art has to a large degree taken the place of religion. In America it seems rather to be science.

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?

History is the interpretation of the significance that the past has for us.

Physical nature lies at our feet shackled with a hundred chains. What of the control of human nature? Do not point to the triumphs of psychiatry, social services or the war against crime. Domination of human nature can only mean the domination of every man by himself.

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 means control over nature.

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

Play is a uniquely adaptive act, not subordinate to some other adaptive act, but with a special function of its own in human experience.

An aristocratic culture does not advertise its emotions. In its forms of expression it is sober and reserved. Its general attitude is stoic.

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 purity of critical judgment.

If we are to preserve culture we must continue to create it.

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.

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

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 partners, to maintain the social character of Europe as much as possible.

Every age yearns for a more beautiful world. The deeper the desperation and the depression about the confusing present, the more intense that yearning.

The second fundamental feature of culture is that all culture has an element of striving.

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

History can predict nothing except that great changes in human relationships will never come about in the form in which they have been anticipated.

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

There is sometimes a peculiar confusion in the West that equates progress to whatever is recent or whatever is new, and it is time we understood that progress has nothing to do with the chronology of an idea.

All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation.

In things to be seen at once, much variety makes confusion, another vice of beauty. In things that are not seen at once, and have no respect one to another, great variety is commendable, provided this variety transgress not the rules of optics and geometry.

The Lord Jesus will be revealed mightily, and will make bare his holy Arm, as well in the confusion of Antichrist, as in the conversion of the Jews, before the last judgment, and the end of all things.

At one of the annual conventions of the American Society for Aesthetics much confusion arose when the Society for Anesthetics met at the same time in the same hotel.

Furthermore, America suffers not only from a lack of standards, but also not infrequently from a confusion or an inversion of standards.

I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death... I think... peace and tranquillity will return again.

An advertising agency is 85 percent confusion and 15 percent commission.

Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.

The use of the polygraph has done little more than create confusion, ambiguity and mistakes.

Let me say that the path I did take for a brief period of my life was not of reckless drug use, hurting others, but it was a path of quiet rebellion, of a little experimentation of a darker side of my confusion in a confusing world, lost in the midst of finding my identity.

Towards four o'clock, the rebels felt strong enough to take the offensive. A brigade with a battery under Earle managed to strike the Federal right on the flank and rear and throw it into utter confusion, which spread rapidly along the whole front. Now came the disastrous end.

People look for morals in fiction because there has always been a confusion between fiction and philosophy.

All comparisons between America's current place in the world and anything legitimately called an empire in the past reveal ignorance and confusion about any reasonable meaning of the concept empire, especially the comparison with the Roman Empire.

One is that that's the way we started and we thought there would be more value and less confusion if the business model was just based on delivering news that's of value to Web sites.

And I believe that it becomes a troubled continent because there are those who must always cause confusion so that we do not keep these natural resources.

I feel very comfortable with the way I look, and I feel very comfortable with the kind of confusion that it creates in people's minds.

It is still not enough for language to have clarity and content... it must also have a goal and an imperative. Otherwise from language we descend to chatter, from chatter to babble and from babble to confusion.

I'm 16 now, I was 15 when it happened... and the encryption code wasn't in fact written by me, but written by the German member. There seems to be a bit of confusion about that part.

The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.