Who said “This strange disease of modern life, with its sick hurry, its divided aims.”?

“Postmodernism is among other things a sick joke at the expense of revolutionary avant-gardism.”

“Don't bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid.”

“Even in a time of elephantine vanity and greed, one never has to look far to see the campfires of gentle people.”

“In societies where modern conditions of production prevail, all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has moved away into a representation.”

“A multitude of causes unknown to former times are now acting with a combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and unfitting it for all voluntary exertion to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor.”

“Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.”

“Because thou must not dream, thou needst not then despair!”

“Resolve to be thyself: and know, that he who finds himself, loses his misery.”

“Still bent to make some port he knows not where, still standing for some false impossible shore.”

“But each day brings its petty dust our soon-choked souls to fill, and we forget because we must, and not because we will.”

“Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human spirit.”