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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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Culture means control over nature.

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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.

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

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From whichever angle one looks at it, the application of racial theories remains a striking proof of the lowered demands of public opinion upon the purity of critical judgment.

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The repudiation of the primacy of understanding means the repudiation of the norms of judgment as well, and hence the abandonment of all ethical standards.

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It is the goal of the American university to be the brains of the republic.

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

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

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

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Biography

Nationality: Dutch

Type: Historian

Born: December 7th, 1872

Died: February 1st, 1945

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