Every artistic form reflects the dynamism that is constantly building up the life of feeling.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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