History Is The Interpretation Of The Significance

If We Are To Preserve Culture We Must Continue To Create It.

The Modern City Hardly Knows A Pure Darkness Or True Silence Anymore, Nor Does It Know The Effect Of A Single Small Light Or That Of A Lonely Distant Shout.

Every Work Of History Constructs Contexts And Designs, Forms In Which Past Reality Can Be Comprehended. History Creates Comprehensibility Primarily By Arranging Facts Meaningfully And Only In A Very Limited Sense By Establishing Strict Causal Connections.

There Are No Instances Known To Me Of Cultures Having Forsaken Truth Or Renounced The Understanding In Its Widest Sense.

The Art Of Watching Has Become Mere Skill At Rapid Apperception And Understanding Of Continuously Changing Visual Images. The Younger Generation Has Acquired This Cinematic Perception To An Amazing Degree.