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All history . . . is an inarticulate Bible.
All history . . . is an inarticulate Bible.
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.
Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.
Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.
There is properly no history, only biography.
There is properly no history, only biography.
The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
What is all our histories, but God showing himself, shaking and trampling on everything that he has not planted.
What is all our histories, but God showing himself, shaking and trampling on everything that he has not planted.
History is past politics; and politics present history.
History is past politics; and politics present history.
