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

Music is our myth of the inner life.

Only a creature that can think symbolically about life can conceive of its own death. Our knowledge of death is part of our knowledge of life.

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

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.

The continual pursuit of meanings-wider, clearer, more negotiable, more articulate meanings- is philosophy.