Symbolic rearrangement of the past is of course an unavoidable aspect of all human attempts to make sense of the present.

If history offers no obvious solutions, however, it does at least provide the comfort of knowing that failure is nothing new.

History is tangled, messy, contradictory. But is where we are.

Motivation is the greatest gift to stimulate the feable minded.

What’s to become of us? We can’t go on like this.”“Yes, we can go on like this, ” said Cesare. “We can go on exactly like this for the rest of our lives.

tonight i was taking down a man

How did I get where I am.” If your answer is anything but dumb luck then you are sadly deluding yourself.

Symmetry is what we see at a glance; based on the fact that there is no reason for any difference.

Preachers err by trying to talk people into belief; better they reveal the radiance of their own discovery.

Men crowd into honorable careers without other vocation than their vanity, or at best their love of fame.

Gazing on beautiful things acts on my soul.

Let's give the historians something to write about

I called to wish you an unhappy birthday because you're evil and you lie and if you should die I may feel slightly sad, but I won't cry.