Culture requires in the first place a certain balance of material and spiritual values.

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

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.

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.

Under weak government, in a wide, thinly populated country, in the struggle against the raw natural environment and with the freeplay of economic forces, unified social groups become the transmitters of culture.

Culture means control over nature.