The limits of thought are not so much set from outside, by the fullness or poverty of experiences that meet the mind, as from within, by the power of conception, the wealth of formulative notions with which the mind meets experiences.

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

One can bear anything of which one is able to conceive.

All persistent practices in art have a creative function. They may serve several ends, but the chief one is the shaping of the work.

The arts objectify subjective reality, and subjectify outward experience of nature. Art education is the education of feeling, and a society that neglects it gives itself up to formless emotion. Bad art is corruption of feeling.

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.

Common-sense knowledge is prompt, categorical, and inexact.