Magic, then, is not a method, but a language; it is part and parcel of that greater phenomenon, ritual, which is the language of religion. Ritual is a symbolic transformation of experiences that no other medium can adequately express.

The Past, being in the mode of memory, is closed, inalienable, and irreparable.

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.

Every artistic form reflects the dynamism that is constantly building up the life of feeling.

The dancer, or dancers, must transform the stage for the audience as well as for themselves into an autonomous, complete, virtual realm, and all motions into a play of visible forces in unbroken, virtual time...Both space and time, as perceptible factors, disappear almost entirely in the dance illusion.

A philosophy is characterized more by the formulation of its problem than by its solution of them.

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