Mythology: the body of a primitive people's beliefs, concerning its origin, early history, heroes, deitits and so forth, as distinguished read more

Mythology: the body of a primitive people's beliefs, concerning its origin, early history, heroes, deitits and so forth, as distinguished from the true accounts which it invents later.

To design the future effectively, you must first let go of your past.

To design the future effectively, you must first let go of your past.

The Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire.

The Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire.

Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story.

Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story.

The past is a work of art, free of irrelevancies and loose ends.

The past is a work of art, free of irrelevancies and loose ends.

History: An account mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly read more

History: An account mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools.

War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading.

War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading.

History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.

History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.

The past always looks better than it was because it isn't here.

The past always looks better than it was because it isn't here.