Expelled from individual consciousness by the rush of change, history finds its revenge by stamping the collective unconsciousness with habits and values.

Honest history is the weapon of freedom.

The very discovery of the New world was the by-product of a dietary quest.

Troubles impending always seem worse than troubles surmounted, but this does not prove that they really are.

Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response.

Problems will always torment us because all important problems are insoluble: that is why they are important. The good comes from the continuing struggle to try and solve them, not from the vain hope of their solution.

Righteousness is easy in retrospect.