The past in the hands of historians is not what it was.

More science and more technology are not going to get us out of the present ecological crises until we find a new religion, or rethink our old one.

[T]he historian lays humanity on the couch.

Ibn Firnas was a polymath: a physician, a rather bad poet, the first to make glass from stones (quartz), a student of music, and inventor of some sort of metronome.

Knowledge Qf history frees us to be contemporary.

If you owe $50, you're a delinquent account. If you owe $50,000, you're a small businessmen. If you owe $50 million, you're a corporation. If you owe $50 billion, you're the government.

History is a means of access to ourselves.