Never Put A Man In The Wrong.

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.

The Only Real Revolution Is In The Enlightenment Of The Mind And The Improvement Of Character, The Only Real Emancipation Is Individual, And The Only Real Revolutionists Are Philosophers And Saints.

In Its Youth A People Produce Mythology And Poetry; In Its Decadence, Philosophy And Logic.

Knowledge Is Power But Only Wisdom Is Liberty.

In Philosophy, As In Politics, The Longest Distance Between Two Points Is A Straight Line.