In its amplest meaning History includes every trace and vestige of everything that man has done or thought since first he appeared on the earth.

We find it hard to believe that other people's thoughts are as silly as our own, but they probably are.

We like to continue to believe what we have been accustomed to accept as true, and the resentment aroused when doubt is cast upon any of our assumptions leads us to seek every manner of excuse for clinging to them. The result is that most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do.

There is nothing else anything like so interesting to ourselves as ourselves.

Political campaigns are designedly made into emotional orgies which endeavor to distract attention from the real issues involved, and they actually paralyze what slight powers of cerebration man can normally muster.

Few of us take the pains to study the origin of our cherished convictions.

Partisanship is our great curse. We too readily assume that everything has two sides and that it is our duty to be on one or the other.