The history of mankind is little else than a narrative of designs which have failed and hopes that have been read more

The history of mankind is little else than a narrative of designs which have failed and hopes that have been disappointed.

Nostalgia is a seductive liar.

Nostalgia is a seductive liar.

I have no history but the length of my bones.

I have no history but the length of my bones.

All history . . . is an inarticulate Bible.

All history . . . is an inarticulate Bible.

The dignity of history.

The dignity of history.

We learn nothing from history except that we learn nothing from history.

We learn nothing from history except that we learn nothing from history.

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief... For a read more

I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief... For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.

A man can be a hero if he is a scientist, or a soldier, or a drug addict, or a read more

A man can be a hero if he is a scientist, or a soldier, or a drug addict, or a disc jockey, or a crummy mediocre politician. A man can be a hero because he suffers and despairs; or because he thinks logically and analytically; or because he is "sensitive;" or because he is cruel. Wealth establishes a man as a hero, and so does poverty. Virtually any circumstance in a man's life will make him a hero to some group of people and has a mythic rendering in the culture -- in literature, art, theater, or the daily newspapers.