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

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

Culture means control over nature.

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

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

The things which can make life enjoyable remain the same. They are, now as before, reading, music, fine arts, travel, the enjoyment of nature, sports, fashion, social vanity (knightly orders, honorary offices, gatherings) and the intoxication of the senses.

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