The historian does not locate known facts in a hypothetical, general pattern of processes; his aim is to link fact to fact, one unique knowable event to another individual one that begot it.

Art is just as comprehensible as science, but in its own terms.

Is it conceivable that mysticism is a mark of inadequate art?

Philosophizing is a process of making sense out of experience.

The power of magic has no known limits. A person knows, in a fair way, his own physical capacities, the weight of the blows he can deal, the furthest range of his arrows, the strength of his voice, the speed and endurance of his running; but the reaches of his mind are indefinite and, to his feeling, infinite.

The development of beings with minds is probably the highest individuation the world has ever known, and its prehistory is the history of life on earth.

Real thinking is possible only in the light of genuine language, no matter how limited, how primitive.