Life is made too easy. Mankind's moral fibre is giving way under the softening influence of luxury.
It is the goal of the American university to be the brains of the republic.
History can predict nothing except that great changes in human relationships will never come about in the form in which they have been anticipated.
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.
It is impossible to strive for the heroic life. The title of hero is bestowed by the survivors upon the fallen, who themselves know nothing of heroism.
From whichever angle one looks at it, the application of racial theories remains a striking proof of the lowered demands of public opinion upon the purity of critical judgment.
Every age yearns for a more beautiful world. The deeper the desperation and the depression about the confusing present, the more intense that yearning.
History creates comprehensibility primarily by arranging facts meaningfully and only in a very limited sense by establishing strict causal connections.
History is the interpretation of the significance that the past has for us.
If we are to preserve culture we must continue to create it.
In Europe art has to a large degree taken the place of religion. In America it seems rather to be science.