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.

Systematic philosophical and practical anti-intellectualism such as we are witnessing appears to be something truly novel in the history of human culture.

A superstition which pretends to be scientific creates a much greater confusion of thought than one which contents itself with simple popular practices.

You only live a short time... and you are dead a long time.

History can predict nothing except that great changes in human relationships will never come about in the form in which they have been anticipated.