History Repeats Itself In The Large Because

The Political Machine Triumphs Because It Is A United Minority Acting Against A Divided Majority.

When Liberty Becomes License, Dictatorship Is Near.

If We Have Never Been Amazed By The Very Fact That We Exist, We Are Squandering The Greatest Fact Of All.

To Rulers Religion, Like Almost Everything Else, Is A Tool Of Power.

A History Of Civilization Shares The Presumptuousness Of Every Philosophical Enterprise: It Offers The Ridiculous Spectacle Of A Fragment Expounding The Whole. Like Philosophy, Such A Venture Has No Rational Excuse, And Is At Best But A Brave Stupidity; But Let Us Hope That, Like Philosophy, It Will Always Lure Some Rash Spirits Into Its Fatal Depths.