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

A crude mind could easily think: something is valid, therefore it is true.

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

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

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

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

Play is older than culture, for culture, however inadequately defined, always presupposes human society, and animals have not waited for man to teach them their playing.