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.

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History can predict nothing except that great changes in human relationships will never come about...

History can predict nothing except that great changes in human relationships will never come about...

An aristocratic culture does not advertise its emotions. In its forms of expression it is...

An aristocratic culture does not advertise its emotions. In its forms of expression it is...

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

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

Systematic philosophical and practical anti-intellectualism such as we are witnessing appears to be something truly...

Systematic philosophical and practical anti-intellectualism such as we are witnessing appears to be something truly...

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

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

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

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

Play is a uniquely adaptive act, not subordinate to some other adaptive act, but with...

Play is a uniquely adaptive act, not subordinate to some other adaptive act, but with...

Revolution as an ideal concept always preserves the essential content of the original thought: sudden...

Revolution as an ideal concept always preserves the essential content of the original thought: sudden...

It is impossible to strive for the heroic life. The title of hero is bestowed...

It is impossible to strive for the heroic life. The title of hero is bestowed...

Do you know anything that in all its innocence is more humiliating than the funny...

Do you know anything that in all its innocence is more humiliating than the funny...

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

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

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

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

Culture means control over nature.

Culture means control over nature.

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

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

Whether the aim is in heaven or on earth, wisdom or wealth, the essential condition...

Whether the aim is in heaven or on earth, wisdom or wealth, the essential condition...

Physical nature lies at our feet shackled with a hundred chains. What of the control...

Physical nature lies at our feet shackled with a hundred chains. What of the control...

From whichever angle one looks at it, the application of racial theories remains a striking...

From whichever angle one looks at it, the application of racial theories remains a striking...

Every age yearns for a more beautiful world. The deeper the desperation and the depression...

Every age yearns for a more beautiful world. The deeper the desperation and the depression...

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

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

These are strange times. Reason, which once combatted faith and seemed to have conquered it,...

These are strange times. Reason, which once combatted faith and seemed to have conquered it,...