The Ultimate Truth Is Penultimately A Falsehood.

History Had A Slow Pulse; Man Counted In Years, History In Generations

History Is A Priori Amoral; It Has No Conscience.

Creativity Is The Defeat Of Habit By Originality.

True Creativity Often Starts Where Language Ends.

We Find In The History Of Ideas Mutations Which Do Not Seem To Correspond To Any Obvious Need, And At First Sight Appear As Mere Playful Whimsies Such As Apollonius' Work On Conic Sections, Or The Non-euclidean Geometries, Whose Practical Value Became Apparent Only Later.