Pioneering is the work of individuals.

As comedy presents the vital rhythm of self-preservation, tragedy exhibits that of self-consummation.

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.

Common-sense knowledge is prompt, categorical, and inexact.

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.

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 function of art is to acquaint the beholder with something he has not known before.