As a child growing up among artists I learned to think of a picture not as a finished product exposed for the admiration of the virtuosi, but as the ….

If an artist may say nothing except what he has invented by his own sole efforts, it stands to reason he will be poor in ideas. If he could take what….

The children of each generation are taught to want what they are taught they must not have..

The dance is the mother of all languages..

The aim of science is to apprehend this purely intelligible world as a thing in itself, an object which is what it is independently of all thinking, ….

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

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

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….

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

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

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….

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

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

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….

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

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….

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

Nothing capable of being memorized is history..

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….