History Reports That The Men Who Can

We Americans Are The Best Informed People On Earth As To The Events Of The Last Twenty-four Hours; We Are The Not The Best Informed As The Events Of The Last Sixty Centuries.

To Give Life A Meaning, One Must Have A Purpose Larger Than Self.

If We Have Never Been Amazed By The Very Fact That We Exist, We Are Squandering The Greatest Fact Of All.

Read, Think Well Of Mankind, Go To Our Libraries And Rejoice.

A History Of Civilization Shares The Presumptuousness Of Every Philosophical Enterprise: It Offers The Ridiculous Spectacle Of A Fragment Expounding The Whole. Like Philosophy, Such A Venture Has No Rational Excuse, And Is At Best But A Brave Stupidity; But Let Us Hope That, Like Philosophy, It Will Always Lure Some Rash Spirits Into Its Fatal Depths.