Georges Duhamel

"The book is one of the springs of creative individualism, that individualism which, in these uncertain times, remains the guardian angel of human society. For five hundred years the book has been, for…"

"The instinct to synthesize is a good one so long as it is concerned with elements that are capable of forming a whole. But today the man in the street is fed, morally as well as physically, on a mass …"

"In books may be found the recipes for manufacture of a steam-engine alongside the recipes for daily living—the prescriptions for the mind and the heart."

"For many people in the future, radio will take the place of an inner life."

"Radio and cinema are daily playing a more and more important part, not only in the amusements of the twentieth-century man but also in the visible formation of his character."

"Aristocracy of the mind … is the only true aristocracy in my opinion. It is the essence, the very life of a well-built society."

"… a pastime for helots, a diversion for uneducated, wretched, worn-out creatures who are consumed by their worries, … a spectacle which requires no concentration and presupposes no intelligence,… whic…"

"When I say, “Beware of the radio if you want to improve your mind,” … I am warning the public against their worst enemy, conformity."