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.

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

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

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.

Nature, as man has always known it, he knows no more. Since he has learned to esteem signs above symbols, to suppress his emotional reactions in favor of practical ones and make use of nature instead of holding so much of it sacred, he has altered the face, if not the heart, of reality.

The high intellectual value of images, however, lies in the fact that they usually, and perhaps always, fit more than one actual experience.

What is artistically good is whatever articulates and presents feeling to our understanding.