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“It is a bizarre, but nevertheless psychologically exact, fact that the physics of the Greeks — being statics and not dynamics — neither knew the use nor felt the absence of the time-element, whereas we on the other hand work…

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“Who amongst them realizes that between the Differential Calculus and the dynastic principle of politics in the age of Louis XIV, between the Classical city-state and the Euclidean geometry, between the space perspective of Western oil painting and the conquest…

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To-day a democrat of the old school would demand, not freedom for the press, but freedom from the press; but mean-time the leaders have…

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“Man was, and is, too shallow and cowardly to endure the fact of the mortality of everything living. He wraps it up in rose-coloured progress-optimism, he heaps upon it the flowers of literature, he crawls behind the shelter of ideals so as not to see anything. But impermanence, the birth and the passing, is the form of all that is…

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To-day we live so cowed under the bombardment of this intellectual artillery that hardly anyone can attain to the inward detachment that is required for a clear view of the monstrous drama. The will-to-power operating under a pure democratic disguise has finished off its masterpiece so well that the object's sense of freedom is actually flattered by the most thorough-going…

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When three liberals get together they form a new party; that is their idea of individualism. They never join a bowling club without introducing…

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“World-history is the history of the great Cultures, and peoples are but the symbolic forms and vessels in which the men of these Cultures…

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Socialism is nothing but the capitalism of the lower classes.

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When the Englishman speaks of national wealth he means the number of millionaires in the country.

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If few can stand a long war without deterioration of soul, none can stand a long peace.

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“The primitive man experiences “soul,” first in other men and then in himself, as a Numen, just as he knows numina of the outer…

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Those who talk too much about race no longer have it in them.

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“At the beginning a man was wealthy because he was powerful — now he is powerful because he has money. Intellect reaches the throne…

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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,…

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