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

Music is our myth of the inner life.

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.

Philosophizing is a process of making sense out of experience.

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.

A mind that is very selective to forms... is apt to use its images metaphorically, to exploit their possible significance for the conception of remote or intangible ideas.

Art is the creation of forms symbolic of human feeling.