History can predict nothing except that great changes in human relationships will never come about in the form in which they have been anticipated.

Without metaphor the handling of general concepts such as culture and civilization becomes impossible, and that of disease and disorder is the obvious one for the case in point. Is not crisis itself a concept we owe to Hippocrates? In the social and cultural domain no metaphor is more apt than the pathological one.

The more the specific feelings of being under obligation range themselves under a supreme principle of human dependence the clearer and more fertile will be the realization of the concept, indispensable to all true culture, of service; from the service of God down to the simple social relationship as between employer and employee.

A new culture can only grow up in the soil of a purged humanity.

The content of the ideal is a desire to return to the perfection of an imaginary past.

You only live a short time... and you are dead a long time.

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