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

The second fundamental feature of culture is that all culture has an element of striving.

History, as the study of the past, makes the coherence of what happened comprehensible by reducing events to a dramatic pattern and seeming them in a simple form.

In Europe art has to a large degree taken the place of religion. In America it seems rather to be science.

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

Systematic philosophical and practical anti-intellectualism such as we are witnessing appears to be something truly novel in the history of human culture.

Play: It is an an activity which proceeds within certain limits of time and space, in a visible order, according to rules freely accepted, and outside the sphere of necessity or material utility. The play-mood is one of rapture and enthusiasm, and is sacred or festive in accordance with the occasion. A feeling of exaltation and tension accompanies the action.