Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anybody else.

Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anybody else.

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.

Give the historians something to write about.

Give the historians something to write about.

Throughout history the world has been laid waste to ensure the triumph of conceptions that are now as dead as read more

Throughout history the world has been laid waste to ensure the triumph of conceptions that are now as dead as the men that died for them.

What is a society without a heroic dimension?

What is a society without a heroic dimension?

History, a distillation of rumor.

History, a distillation of rumor.

Tyranny destroys or strengthens the individual; freedom enervates him, until he becomes no more than a puppet. Man has more read more

Tyranny destroys or strengthens the individual; freedom enervates him, until he becomes no more than a puppet. Man has more chances of saving himself by hell than by paradise.

History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.

History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.

While we read history we make history.

While we read history we make history.