How real is history? Is it just an enormous soup so full of disparate ingredients that it is uncharacterizable?
Thomas CahillIs is seldom possible to say of the medievals that they *always* did one thing and *never* another; they were marvelously inconsistent.
Thomas CahillThe Irish believed that gods, druids, poets, and others in touch with the magical world could be literal shape-shifters
Thomas Cahill(The festival) was awfully impersonal and abstract and there was something really gloomy about it. That's when I first started thinking about the typical view of reality.
Thomas CahillWe can hardly get up in the morning or cross the street without being Jewish. We dream Jewish dreams and hope Jewish hopes. Most of our best words, in fact - new, adventure, surprise; unique, individual, person, vocation; time, history, future; freedom, progress, spirit; faith, hope, justice - are the gifts of the Jews.
Thomas Cahill