Woe Unto The Defeated, Whom History Treads

The Discoveries Of Yesterday Are The Truisms Of Tomorrow, Because We Can Add To Our Knowledge But Cannot Subtract From It.

In The Index To The Six Hundred Odd Pages Of Arnold Toynbee's A Study Of History, Abridged Version, The Names Of Copernicus, Galileo, Descartes And Newton Do Not Occur Yet Their Cosmic Quest Destroyed The Medieval Vision Of An Immutable Social Order In A Walled-in Universe And Transformed The European Landscape, Society, Culture, Habits And General Outlook, As Thoroughly As If A New Species Had Arisen On This Planet.

I Am Not Sure Whether Ethical Absolutes Exist. But I Am Sure That We Have To Act As If They Existed Or Civilization Perishes.

The Principle That The End Justifies The Means Is And Remains The Only Rule Of Political Ethics; Anything Else Is Just A Vague Chatter And Melts Away Between One’s Fingers.

Adolescence Is A Kind Of Emotional Seasickness. Both Are Funny, But Only In Retrospect.