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I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject, when it seemed read more
I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject, when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron scumbags devoid of any admirable human qualities. I failed history.
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
Be as a tower firmly set; Shakes not its top for any blast that blows.
Be as a tower firmly set; Shakes not its top for any blast that blows.
Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.
Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.
Keeping books on social aid is capitalistic nonsense. I just use the money for the poor. I can't stop to read more
Keeping books on social aid is capitalistic nonsense. I just use the money for the poor. I can't stop to count it.
The dignity of history.
The dignity of history.
We will hereafter believe less history than ever, now that we have seen how it is made.
We will hereafter believe less history than ever, now that we have seen how it is made.
All history is a Bible--a thing stated in words by me more than
once.
All history is a Bible--a thing stated in words by me more than
once.
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.
