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

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

Revolution as an ideal concept always preserves the essential content of the original thought: sudden and lasting betterment.

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.

The title of hero is bestowed by the survivors upon the fallen, who themselves know nothing of heroism.

Barbarisation may be defined as a cultural process whereby an attained condition of high value is gradually overrun and supersededby elements of lower quality.

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