Music is our myth of the inner life.

It is significant that people who refuse to tell their children fairytales do not fear that the children will believe in princes and princesses, but that they will believe in witches and bogeys.

Art is the objectification of feeling, and the subjectification of nature.

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.

Most new discoveries are suddenly-seen things that were always there.

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.

... the image of feeling created by artists, in every kind of art -- plastic, musical, poetic, balletic -- serves to hold the reality itself for our labile and volatile memory, as a touchstone to test the scope of our intellectual constructions.