Life is made too easy. Mankind's moral fibre is giving way under the softening influence of luxury.

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.

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

If we are to preserve culture we must continue to create it.

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

The new knowledge has not yet settled in culture. It has not yet been integrated in a new cosmic conception.

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