The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.

What is the thread of western civilization that distinguished its course in history? It has to do with the preoccupation of western man with his outward command and his sense of superiority.

The truth is of course that history is not completed in modern commerce any more than philosophy is perfected in political economy. In other words there is nothing timeless or God-given about filling stations and penicillin and plastic bags.

Destiny is something not be to desired and not to be avoided. a mystery not contrary to reason for it implies that the world and the course of human history have meaning.

Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true: language is what makes us human. It is a recourse against the meaningless noise and silence of nature and history.

The history of the world shows that peoples and societies do not have to pass through a fixed series of stages in the course of development.

I learned much more about acting from philosophy courses psychology courses history and anthropology than I ever learned in acting class.

Now when I hear that Christians are getting together in order to defend the people of Israel of course it brings joy to my heart. And it simply says look people have learned from history.

Ideas shape the course of history.

The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece but he cannot of course create it.