Play is a uniquely adaptive act, not subordinate to some other adaptive act, but with a special function of its own in human experience.

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.

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

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.

It is an evil world. The fires of hatred and violence burn fiercely. Evil is powerful, the devil covers a darkened earth with hisblack wings. And soon the end of the world is expected. But mankind does not repent, the church struggles, and the preachers and poets warn and lament in vain.

The eternal gulf between being and idea can only be bridged by the rainbow of imagination.

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