Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response.
Clarity in language depends on clarity in thought.
Santayana's aphorism must be reversed: too often it is those who can remember the past who are condemned to repeat it.
History is, indeed, an argument without end.
History, in the end, becomes a form of irony.
The use of history as therapy means the corruption of history as history.