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

To trace the development of mind from earliest times ... requires ... not a categorical concept, but a functional one.... The most promising operational principle for this purpose is the principle of individuation.

Art is the creation of forms symbolic of human feeling.

common sense is a very tricky instrument; it is as deceptive as it is indispensable.

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.

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.

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