All history is the history of thought..

The history of thought, and therefore all history, is the re-enactment of past thought in the historian's own mind..

Nothing capable of being memorized is history..

A man ceases to be a beginner in any given science and becomes a master in that science when he has learned that... he is going to be a beginner all ….

Classical art stands for form; romantic art for content..

To regard such a positive mental science [psychology] as rising above the sphere of history, and establishing the permanent and unchanging laws of hu….

Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue..

The artist must prophesy not in the sense that he foretells things to come, but in the sense that he tells his audience, at the risk of their displea….

Perfect Freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work, and in that work does what he wants to do..

Art is community's medicine for that worst disease of the mind, the corruption of consciousness.

There is no truer and more abiding happiness than the knowledge that one is free to go on doing, day by day, the best work one can do, ... , and that….

Parenthood is not an object of appetite or even desire. It is an object of will. There is no appetite for parenthood; there is only a purpose or inte….

The sociability of artists is a paradoxical and precarious thing, and ceases the instant they begin their actual artistic work..

The chief business of seventeenth-century philosophy was to reckon with seventeenth-century science... the chief business of twentieth-century philos….

History is for human self-knowledge. Knowing yourself means knowing, first, what it is to be a person; secondly, knowing what it is to be the kind of….

Art has no cosmology, it gives us no view of the universe; every distinct work of art gives us a little cosmology of its own, and no ingenuity will c….

To the scientist, nature is always and merely a 'phenomenon,' not in the sense of being defective in reality, but in the sense of being a spectacle p….

Every new generation must rewrite history in its own way..

The value of history. ..is that it teaches us what man has done and thus what man is..

What a man is ashamed of is always at bottom himself; and he is ashamed of himself at bottom always for being afraid..

The romantic artist expects people to ask, 'What has he got to say?' The classical artist expects them to ask, 'How does he say it?.