The Eternal Gulf Between Being And Idea

When The World Was Half A Thousand Years Younger All Events Had Much Sharper Outlines Than Now. The Distance Between Sadness And Joy, Between Good And Bad Fortune, Seemed To Be Much Greater Than For Us; Every Experience Had That Degree Of Directness And Absoluteness Which Joy And Sadness Still Have In The Mind Of A Child

No Other Discipline Has Its Portals So Wide Open To The General Public As History.

People Accept A Representation In Which The Elements Of Wish And Fantasy Are Purposely Included But Which Nevertheless Proclaims To Represent "the Past" And To Serve As A Guide-rule For Life, Thereby Hopelessly Confusing The Spheres Of Knowledge And Will.

One Does Not Realize The Historical Sensation As A Re-experiencing, But As An Understanding That Is Closely Related To The Understanding Of Music, Or Rather Of The World By Means Of Music.

The More The Specific Feelings Of Being Under Obligation Range Themselves Under A Supreme Principle Of Human Dependence The Clearer And More Fertile Will Be The Realization Of The Concept, Indispensable To All True Culture, Of Service; From The Service Of God Down To The Simple Social Relationship As Between Employer And Employee.