(5) Everyone must therefore be able to have access, as soon and as completely as possible, to all available data for, and possible consequences of, t… - Fred Polak

(1) I think about the future, therefore I am and can be a human being;

(10) All objectives meet in the endlessly continued approach to and progress towards the ideal “summum bonum”, though this, the most valuable humanistic good of a full human society, may perhaps never be capable of realization in total perfection.

The rise and fall of images of the future precedes or accompanies the rise and fall of cultures. As long as a society's image is positive and flourishing, the flower of culture is in full bloom. Once the image begins to decay and lose its vitality, however, the culture does not long survive.