The historical sense involves a perception, not only of the pastness of the past, but of its presence.

I’m not perfect, and I don’t pretend to be.

The essence of modernity is psychologism, the experiencing and interpretation of the world in terms of the reactions of our inner life and indeed as an inner world, the dissolution of fixed contents in the fluid element of the soul, from which all that is substantive is filtered and whose forms are merely forms of motion.