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

One does not realize the historical sensation as a re-experiencing, but as an understanding that is closely related to the understanding of music, or rather of the world by means of music.

Life is made too easy. Mankind's moral fibre is giving way under the softening influence of luxury.

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

The slogan offers a counterweight to the general dispersion of thought by holding it fast to a single, utterly succinct and unforgettable expression, one which usually inspires men to immediate action. It abolishes reflection: the slogan does not argue, it asserts and commands.

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.

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