The history of thought, and therefore all history, is the re-enactment of past thought in the historian's own mind.

The children of each generation are taught to want what they are taught they must not have.

As a child growing up among artists I learned to think of a picture not as a finished product exposed for the admiration of the virtuosi, but as the visible record, lying about the house, of an attempt to solve a definite problem in painting.

The chief business of seventeenth-century philosophy was to reckon with seventeenth-century science... the chief business of twentieth-century philosophy is to reckon with twentieth-century history.

Perfect Freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work, and in that work does what he wants to do.

To regard such a positive mental science [psychology] as rising above the sphere of history, and establishing the permanent and unchanging laws of human nature, is therefore possible only to a person who mistakes the transient conditions of a certain historical age for the permanent conditions of human life.

The history of thought, and therefore all history, is the re-enactment of past thought in the historian's own mind.