The high intellectual value of images, however, lies in the fact that they usually, and perhaps always, fit more than one actual experience.

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

It is the historical mind, rather than the scientific (in the physicist's sense), that destroyed the mythical orientation of European culture; the historian, not the mathematician, introduced the "higher criticism," the standard of actual fact. It is he who is the real apostle of the realistic age.

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

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

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

As comedy presents the vital rhythm of self-preservation, tragedy exhibits that of self-consummation.