Tell me something wicked.
Nothing capable of being memorized is history.
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.
The history of thought, and therefore all history, is the re-enactment of past thought in the historian's own mind.
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.
Jesus Christ has to suffer and be rejected. . . . Suffering and being rejected are not the same.
This horror of pain is a rather low instinct and. . . if I think of human beings I've known and of my own life, such as it is, I can't recall any case of pain which didn't, on the whole, enrich life.
Any time and any place can be used to study: his room, a garden, is table, his bed; when alone or in company; morning and evening. His chief study will be Philosophy, that Former of good judgement and character who is privileged to be concerned with everything.
I won vice president of my student body in high school. That doesn't mean anything.