Historical judgement is not a variety of knowledge, it is knowledge itself; it is the form which completely fills and exhausts the field of knowing, leaving no room for anything else.

Art is ruled uniquely by the imagination.

All history is contemporary history.

History is various and sinuous and no essential part of the human spirit is ever wholly absent from it.

We shall not understand the history of men and other times unless we ourselves are alive to the requirements which that history satisfied.

The writing of histories - as Goethe once noted - is one way of getting rid of the weight of the past.... The writing of history liberates us from history.

This is a mission and a vision to do good as well as doing well.

Art is what everyone knows it is.

The translation called good has original value as a work of art.

Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action a superior mind exists in torture.

How starved they seemed for ordinary kindness

Faith was the most powerful force in the universe.

In a budget, how important is art versus music versus athletics versus computer programming? At the end of the day, some of those trade-offs will be made politically.

Women have the genius of charity. A man gives but his gold; a woman adds to it her sympathy.

He is not a true man of science who does not bring some sympathy to his studies, and expect to learn something by behaviour as well as application.

Where nature is sovereign, there is no need of austerity and self-denial.

Without a piano I don't know how to stand, don't know what to do with my hands.

We're all born bald, baby.

Sci-fi films are the epic films of the day because we can no longer put 10,000 extras in the scene - but we can draw thousands of aliens with computers.

The less you want, the richer you are. The more you need in order to be happy, the more miserable you’ll be.