History is various and sinuous and no essential part of the human spirit is ever wholly absent from it.

We shall not understand the history of men and other times unless we ourselves are alive to the requirements which that history satisfied.

This is a mission and a vision to do good as well as doing well.

Art is ruled uniquely by the imagination.

Art is ruled uniquely by the imagination. Images are it's only wealth. It does not classify objects, it does not pronounce them real or imaginary, does not qualify them does not define them; it feels and presents them.

The writing of histories - as Goethe once noted - is one way of getting rid of the weight of the past.... The writing of history liberates us from history.

History is various and sinuous and no essential part of the human spirit is ever wholly absent from it.