“What classes and strata of society will now become the real representatives of culture, will give us our scholars, artists and poets, our creative personalities?
Or is everything to turn into big business, as in America?
Jakob Burkhardt

"In its widest possible sense ... a man's Self is the sum-total of what he can call his, not only his body and his psychic powers, but his clothes and his house, his wife and children, his ancestors and friends, his reputation…