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

Physical nature lies at our feet shackled with a hundred chains. What of the control of human nature? Do not point to the triumphsof psychiatry, social services or the war against crime. Domination of human nature can only mean the domination of every man by himself.

Culture must have its ultimate aim in the metaphysical or it will cease to be culture.

No other discipline has its portals so wide open to the general public as history.

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.

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

The eternal gulf between being and idea can only be bridged by the rainbow of imagination.