Like Other Revolutionaries I Can Thank God

To Regard Such A Positive Mental Science [psychology] As Rising Above The Sphere Of History, And Establishing The Permanent And Unchanging Laws Of Human Nature, Is Therefore Possible Only To A Person Who Mistakes The Transient Conditions Of A Certain Historical Age For The Permanent Conditions Of Human Life.

All History Is The History Of Thought.

The Artist Must Prophesy Not In The Sense That He Foretells Things To Come, But In The Sense That He Tells His Audience, At The Risk Of Their Displeasure, The Secrets Of Their Own Hearts

The History Of Thought, And Therefore All History, Is The Re-enactment Of Past Thought In The Historian's Own Mind.

To The Scientist, Nature Is Always And Merely A 'phenomenon,' Not In The Sense Of Being Defective In Reality, But In The Sense Of Being A Spectacle Presented To His Intelligent Observation; Whereas The Events Of History Are Never Mere Phenomena, Never Mere Spectacles For Contemplation, But Things Which The Historian Looks, Not At, But Through, To Discern The Thought Within Them.