Life Is Made Too Easy.

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.

Physical Nature Lies At Our Feet Shackled With A Hundred Chains. What Of The Control Of Human Nature? Do Not Point To The Triumphsof Psychiatry, Social Services Or The War Against Crime. Domination Of Human Nature Can Only Mean The Domination Of Every Man By Himself.

You Can Deny, If You Like, Nearly All Abstractions: Justice, Beauty, Truth, Goodness, Mind, God. You Can Deny Seriousness, But Not Play.

Without Claiming Superiority Of Intellectual Over Visual Understanding, One Is Nevertheless Bound To Admit That The Cinema Allowsa Number Of æsthetic-intellectual Means Of Perception To Remain Unexercised Which Cannot But Lead To A Weakening Of Judgment.

When The World Was Half A Thousand Years Younger All Events Had Much Sharper Outlines Than Now. The Distance Between Sadness And Joy, Between Good And Bad Fortune, Seemed To Be Much Greater Than For Us; Every Experience Had That Degree Of Directness And Absoluteness Which Joy And Sadness Still Have In The Mind Of A Child