When I was a child, when I was an adolescent, books saved me from despair: that convinced me that culture was the highest of values.
The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.
It is not the part of a true culture to tame tigers, any more than it is to make sheep ferocious.
Human life is reduced to real suffering, to hell, only when two ages, two cultures and religions overlap.
Cultures die. Life is not circular but ruthlessly straight.
Culture is liberation, the removal of all the weeds, rubble and vermin that want to attack the tender buds of the plant.[Sondern Befreiung ist sie, Wegräumung alles Unkrauts, Schuttwerks, Gewürms, das die zarten Keime der Pflanzen antasten will.]
Culture and possessions – there is the bourgeoisie for you.
