The modern world demands that we approve what it should not even dare ask us to tolerate.
Intellectual vulgarity depresses me more than bad news.
Puritanism is the attitude that befits the decent man in the world today.
The modern world will not be punished.
It is the punishment.
Men can be divided into those who make their life complicated to gain their soul and those who waste their soul to make their life easier.
Other ages may have been as vulgar as ours, but none had the extraordinary sounding board, the inexorable amplifier, of modern industry.