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

Feeling, in the broad sense of whatever is felt in any way, as sensory stimulus or inward tension, pain, emotion or intent, is the mark of mentality.

Music is the tonal analogue of emotive life.

Fire is a natural symbol of life and passion, though it is the one element in which nothing can actually live.

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.

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

The seeds of civilization are in every culture, but it is city life that brings them to fruition.