We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours; we are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.

The past is not dead. Indeed, it is often not even past.

War is one of the constants of history, and it has not diminished with civilization or democracy.

Progress is the increasing control of the environment by life.

Science without philosophy, facts without perspective and valuation, cannot save us from havoc and despair. Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.

Cultural creation... begins where chaos and insecurity end.

The crossroads of trade are the meeting place of ideas, the attrition ground of rival customs and beliefs; diversities beget conflict, comparison, thought; superstitions cancel one another, and reason begins.