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

Quite apart from any conscious program, the great cultural historians have always been historical morphologists: seekers after theforms of life, thought, custom, knowledge, art.

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

An aristocratic culture does not advertise its emotions. In its forms of expression it is sober and reserved. Its general attitude is stoic.

The modern city hardly knows a pure darkness or true silence anymore, nor does it know the effect of a single small light or that of a lonely distant shout.

History is the interpretation of the significance that the past has for us.

In order to begin an analysis, there must already be a synthesis present in the mind.