Music is the tonal analogue of emotive life.

Feeling, in the broad sense of whatever is felt in any way, as sensory stimulus or inward tension, pain, emotion or intent, is the mark of mentality.

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

The first impression of a work of art is its otherness from reality.

The way a question is asked limits and disposes the ways in which any answer to it-right or wrong-may be given.

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.

If a work of art is a projection of feeling, its kinship with organic nature will emerge, no matter through how many transformations, logically and inevitably.