We think of religion as the symbolic expression of our highest moral ideals; we think of magic as a crude aggregate of superstitions. Religious belie…

- Ernst Cassirer

Knowledge of the name gives him who knows it mastery even over the being and will of the god.

- Ernst Cassirer

There is a conceptual depth as well as a purely visual depth. The first is discovered by science; the second is revealed in art. The first aids us in…

- Ernst Cassirer

Man is always inclined to regard the small circle in which he lives as the center of the world and to make his particular, private life the standard …

- Ernst Cassirer

Religion claims to be in possession of an absolute truth; but its history is a history of errors and heresies. It gives us the promise and prospect o…

- Ernst Cassirer

To learn a new language is, therefore, always a sort of spiritual adventure; it is like a journey of discovery in which we find a new world.

- Ernst Cassirer