This world cannot explain its own difficulties without the assistance of another.
The history of thought, and therefore all history, is the re-enactment of past thought in the historian's own mind.
The romantic artist expects people to ask, 'What has he got to say?' The classical artist expects them to ask, 'How does he say it?
Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.
History is for human self-knowledge. Knowing yourself means knowing, first, what it is to be a person; secondly, knowing what it is to be the kind of person you are; and thirdly, knowing what it is to be the person you are and nobody else is. Knowing yourself means knowing what you can do; and since nobody knows what they can do until they try, the only clue to what man can do is what man has done. The value of history, then, is that it teaches us what man has done and thus what man is.
A man ceases to be a beginner in any given science and becomes a master in that science when he has learned that. . . he is going to be a beginner all his life.
Art is community's medicine for that worst disease of the mind, the corruption of consciousness
You make your Own luck.
The weird nihilism that permeates Mellon Collie is extremely relevant to what's going on right now. So many kids are intelligent and articulate, but they don't know what to do with themselves.
Stress is an indicator of our belief in the value and validity of our worries and fears.
Having the right attitude is fundamental to being an effective leader.