All The Essentials Of Humanity's Artistic Treasures

Our Students Wanted To Know Everything: But Only The Newest Theory Seemed To Them Worth Bothering With. Knowing Nothing Of The Intellectual Achievements Of The Past, They Kept Fresh And Intact Their Enthusiasm For 'the Latest Thing'. Fashion Dominated Their Interest: They Valued Ideas Not For Themselves But For The Prestige That They Could Wring From Them.

The Anthropologist Respects History, But He Does Not Accord It A Special Value. He Conceives It As A Study Complementary To His Own: One Of Them Unfurls The Range Of Human Societies In Time, The Other In Space.

No Contact With Savage Indian Tribes Has Ever Daunted Me More Than The Morning I Spent With An Old Lady Swathed In Woolies Who Compared Herself To A Rotten Herring Encased In A Block Of Ice.

Understanding Arises From Reducing One Type Of Reality Into Another.

There Is Today A Frightful Disappearance Of Living Species, Be They Plants Or Animals. And It's Clear That The Density Of Human Beings Has Become So Great, If I Can Say So, That They Have Begun To Poison Themselves. And The World In Which I Am Finishing My Existence Is No Longer A World That I Like.