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.

History creates comprehensibility primarily by arranging facts meaningfully and only in a very limited sense by establishing strict causal connections.

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

The susceptibility of the average modern to pictorial suggestion enables advertising to exploit his lessened power of judgment.

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