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

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

Science, unguided by a higher abstract principle, freely hands over its secrets to a vastly developed and commercially inspired technology, and the latter, even less restrained by a supreme culture saving principle, with the means of science creates all the instruments of power demanded from it by the organization of Might.

The spirit of playful competition is, as a social impulse, older than culture itself and pervades all life like a veritable ferment. Ritual grew up in sacred play; poetry was born in play and nourished on play; music and dancing were pure play....We have to conclude, therefore, that civilization is, in its earliest phases, played. It does not come from play...it arises in and as play, and never leaves it.

Do you know anything that in all its innocence is more humiliating than the funny pages of a Sunday newspaper in America?

You can deny, if you like, nearly all abstractions: justice, beauty, truth, goodness, mind, God. You can deny seriousness, but not play.

A superstition which pretends to be scientific creates a much greater confusion of thought than one which contents itself with simple popular practices.