"Rapacity is the main force in our time in the Occident." (Part I, Section I, Digest of the Analects, 15-16)

"The history of a culture is the history of ideas going into action." (Part I, Section I, Totalitarian, 44)

"There was and is a higher civilization in a dozen, or a hundred or two hundred Italian writers, who will never achieve any celebrity, than in the much published and touted names." (Part II, Section III, Italy, 91)

"When you don't understand it, let it alone." (Part III, Section IV, Kulchur: Part One, 127)

"A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values." (Part III, Section IV, March 12th, 137)

"A new learning is necessary, is demanded by every one of the few hundred sufferers who has a respectable decent and clean curiosity." (Part III, Section V, The...