Every age yearns for a more beautiful world. The deeper the desperation and the depression about the confusing present, the more intense that yearning.
An aristocratic culture does not advertise its emotions. In its forms of expression it is sober and reserved. Its general attitude is stoic.
History is the interpretation of the significance that the past has for us.
These are strange times. Reason, which once combatted faith and seemed to have conquered it, now has to look to faith to save it from dissolution.
In Europe art has to a large degree taken the place of religion. In America it seems rather to be science.
Whether the aim is in heaven or on earth, wisdom or wealth, the essential condition of its pursuit and attainment is always security and order.
History can predict nothing except that great changes in human relationships will never come about in the form in which they have been anticipated.
Play is a uniquely adaptive act, not subordinate to some other adaptive act, but with a special function of its own in human experience.
