History is still in large measure poetry to me.

History is still in large measure poetry to me.

There might be a fact of the greatest significance reported by Thucydides which will only be recognized as such a hundred years from now.

The essence of tyranny is the denial of complexity.

The state incurs debts for politics, war, and other higher causes and 'progress'. . . . The assumption is that the future will honour this relationship in perpetuity. The state has learned from the merchants and industrialists how to exploit credit; it defies the nation ever to let it go into bankruptcy. Alongside all swindlers the state now stands there as swindler-in-chief.

Only the fairy tale equates changelessness with happiness...Permanence means paralysis and death. Only, in movement, with all its pain, is life.

Only a fairy tale calls a constant condition 'happiness'.