Revolution as an ideal concept always preserves the essential content of the original thought: sudden and lasting betterment.

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.

There are no instances known to me of cultures having forsaken Truth or renounced the understanding in its widest sense.

Do you know anything that in all its innocence is more humiliating than the funny pages of a Sunday newspaper in America?

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

Without claiming superiority of intellectual over visual understanding, one is nevertheless bound to admit that the cinema allowsa number of æsthetic-intellectual means of perception to remain unexercised which cannot but lead to a weakening of judgment.

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.