History, like a vast river, propels logs, vegetation, rafts, and debris; it is full of live and dead things, some destined for resurrection; it mingles many waters and holds in solution invisible substances stolen from distant soils.

Since in every European country between 1870 and 1914 there was a war party demanding armaments, an individualist party demanding ruthless competition, an imperialist party demanding a free hand over backward peoples, a socialist party demanding the conquest of power and a racialist party demanding internal purges against aliens - all of them, when appeals to greed and glory failed, invoked Spencer and Darwin, which was to say science incarnate.

Science is, in the best and strictest sense, glorious entertainment

The one thing that unifies men in a given age is not their individual philosophies but the dominant problem that these philosophies are designed to solve.

To delve into history entails, besides the grievance of hard work, the danger that in the depths one may lose one’s scapegoats.

An artist has every right - one may even say a duty - to exhibit his productions as prominently as he can.

We cannot appreciate the art of any age without first acquiring an equivalent of the experience it depicts.