“We all understand that the debasement of a nation's coinage is very pernicious and must prove disastrous to its commerce. How much more dangerous is the debasement of the spiritual coinage!”

Kulturphilosophie (1923), Vol. 2 : Civilization and Ethics
Context: The disastrous feature of our civilization is that it is far more developed materially than spiritually. Its balance is disturbed … Now come the facts to summon us to reflect. They tell us in terribly harsh language that a civilization which develops only on its material side, and not in the sphere of the spirit … heads for disaster.

In P. 29
Quote, Memorable Quotes from Rajiv Gandhi and on Rajiv Gandhi

By this sign we conquer.
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 172.

Variant: We all become what we pretend to be.
Source: The Name of the Wind

Source: The Sound of Things Falling

In Quest of Democracy (1991)

Clyfford Still, interview with Ti Grace Sharpless, 1963; as quoted in Abstract Expressionism Creators and Critics, edited by Clifford Ross, Abrams Publishers New York 1990, p. 200
1960s

“From George Washington to Lafayette, 15 August 1786,” Founders Online, National Archives http://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/04-04-02-0200 Source: The Papers of George Washington, Confederation Series, vol. 4, 2 April 1786 – 31 January 1787, ed. W. W. Abbot. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1995, pp. 214–216. Page scan http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=mgw2&amp;fileName=gwpage013.db&amp;recNum=157&amp;tempFile=./temp/~ammem_fmyS&amp;filecode=mgw&amp;next_filecode=mgw&amp;itemnum=1&amp;ndocs=100 at American Memory (Library of Congress) <br class="br">1780s <br class="br">Context: Altho’ I pretend to no peculiar information respecting commercial affairs, nor any foresight into the scenes of futurity; yet as the member of an infant-empire, as a Philanthropist by character, and (if I may be allowed the expression) as a Citizen of the great republic of humanity at large; I cannot help turning my attention sometimes to this subject. I would be understood to mean, I cannot avoid reflecting with pleasure on the probable influence that commerce may here after have on human manners &amp; society in general. On these occasions I consider how mankind may be connected like one great family in fraternal ties—I endulge a fond, perhaps an enthusiastic idea, that as the world is evidently much less barbarous than it has been, its melioration must still be progressive—that nations are becoming more humanized in their policy—that the subjects of ambition &amp; causes for hostility are daily diminishing—and in fine, that the period is not very remote when the benefits of a liberal &amp; free commerce will, pretty generally, succeed to the devastations &amp; horrors of war.

1994, p. 45
Integrity in Science (1985)