History is the interpretation of the significance that the past has for us.

The modern city hardly knows a pure darkness or true silence anymore, nor does it know the effect of a single small light or that of a lonely distant shout.

History is the interpretation of the significance that the past has for us.

Play is a uniquely adaptive act, not subordinate to some other adaptive act, but with a special function of its own in human experience.

But one sound always rose above the clamor of busy life and, no matter how much of a tintinnabulation, was never confused and, fora moment lifted everything into an ordered sphere: that of the bells.

What the study of history and artistic creation have in common is a mode of forming images.

Every work of history constructs contexts and designs, forms in which past reality can be comprehended. History creates comprehensibility primarily by arranging facts meaningfully and only in a very limited sense by establishing strict causal connections.