It is good a philosopher should remind himself, now and then, that he is a particle pontificating on infinity.

The conservative who resists change is as valuable as the radical who proposes it.

No man who is in a hurry is quite civilised.

The present is the past rolled up for action, and the past is the present unrolled for understanding.

It is good a philosopher should remind himself, now and then, that he is a particle pontificating on infinity.

Only a fool would try to compress a hundred centuries into a hundred pages of hazardous conclusions. We proceed.

A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within.