"[E]very human life, even the most modest, has its own independent value not only before God, but also before history;…"

"[P]recisely the simple events experienced by children, sometimes possess something of natural historicity. For isn't …"

"[T]he inhabitants of Salzwedel, especially the women, are a particular human type. They are deeply fond of their town…"

"Culture means transforming what was learned at school into natural wholeness and humanity."

"The rigorous methodical rules that are learned in seminars, the patient collection and examination of sources and the…"

"[W]as free science to be identified with the science without presuppositions of which Mommsen had spoken? It has ofte…"

"[I]n Strasbourg itself there were no gaps between past and present. Romanesque and Gothic Middle Ages, Baroque and th…"

"Florence became a revelation for me that made me infinitely happy. However many works of art of the Italian Renaissan…"

"[The beginning of the First World War] was a decisive moment in my life, of a singular nature, inserted in a very gre…"

"Power and realistic politics, once freed from universalistic (i.e. ultimately ethical) motives, could too easily dege…"