History not used is nothing, for all intellectual life is action, like practical life, and if you don't use the stuff - well, it might as well be dead.

The aim of all education is, or should be, to teach people to educate themselves.

The equation of religion with belief is rather recent.

I do not believe that civilizations have to die because civilization is not an organism. It is a product of wills.

Angkor is perhaps the greatest of Man's essays in rectangular architecture that has yet been brought to life.

The West has never been all of the world that matters. The West has not been the only actor on the stage of modern history even at the peak of the West's power (and this peak has perhaps now already been passed)... It has not been the West that has been hit by the world; it has been the world that has been hit - and hit hard - by the West.

It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.