History - Select Quotes
April 25, 2008
History is philosophy teaching by example.
~ Dionysius of Halicarnassus
History, the evidence of time, the light of truth, the life of memory, the directress of life, the herald of antiquity, committed to immortality.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero, in De Oratore
Marcus Tullius Cicero - Select Quotes
April 12, 2008
Of all the gifts of the gods to the human race, philosophy is the richest, the most beautiful, the most exalted.
~ in De Legibus
Philosophy is the best medicine for the mind.
History, the evidence of time, the light of truth, the life of memory, the directress of life, the herald of antiquity, committed to immortality.
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Babylon Uncovered
March 14, 2008
George Santayana - Select Quotes
March 2, 2008
To fight is a radical instinct; if men have nothing else to fight over they will fight over words, fancies, or women, or they will fight because they dislike each other’s looks, or because they have met walking in opposite directions. To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight to the blood.
Fanaticism consist in redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.
~ in The Life of Reason
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
~ in The Life of Reason
History is alway written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten.
~ in The Life of Reason
To call war the soil of courage and virtue is like calling debauchery the soil of love.
Love makes us poets and the approach of death should make us philosophers.
