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.

To trace the development of mind from earliest times ... requires ... not a categorical concept, but a functional one.... The most promising operational principle for this purpose is the principle of individuation.

Philosophizing is a process of making sense out of experience.

The function of art is to acquaint the beholder with something he has not known before.

Speech is the mark of humanity. It is the normal terminus of thought.

Artistic form is congruent with the dynamic forms of our direct sensuous, mental, and emotional life; works of art are projections of "felt life", as Henry James called it, into spatial, temporal, and poetic structures.

value exists only where there is consciousness. Where nothing ever is felt, nothing matters.