The primal and perennial work of social organization is not to fix the bounds of behavior as permanent lines, which would make all evolutionary proce… - Susanne Langer

Art is the creation of forms symbolic of human feeling.

It is the historical mind, rather than the scientific (in the physicist's sense), that destroyed the mythical orientation of European culture; the historian, not the mathematician, introduced the "higher criticism," the standard of actual fact. It is he who is the real apostle of the realistic age. Science builds its structure of hypothetical "elements" and laws of their behavior, touching on reality at crucial points.[…] But the historian does not locate known facts in a hypothetical, general pattern of processes; his aim is to link fact to fact, one unique knowable event to another individual one that begot it.

Common-sense knowledge is prompt, categorical, and inexact.