The lack of a sense of history is the damnation of the modern world.

Reality is not a function of the event as event, but of the relationship of that event to past, and future, events.

The past is always a rebuke to the present.

[A]nd soon now we shall go out of the house and go into the convulsion of the world, out of history into history and the awful responsibility of Time.

Man is conceived in sin and born in corruption and he passeth from the stink of the didie to the stench of the shroud. There is always something (All The King's Men)

When you get born your father and mother lost something out of themselves, and they are going to bust a ham trying to get it back, and you are it. They know they can't get it all back but they will get as big a chunk out of you as they can.

If you are an idealist, it does not matter what you do or what goes on around you because it isn't real anyway.