Source: For Reasons Of State
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Source: Overachievement: The New Science of Working Less to Accomplish More
Source: The Conduct of Life
Source: Bacon's Advancement of Learning and the New Atlantis
“The greatest man in history was the poorest.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)
“A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization.”
“Heroism feels and never reasons, and therefore is always right.”
Source: Essays and Lectures
“The best time to plan a book is while you're doing the dishes.”
Source: Greatest Works of Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness, Nostromo, The Duel, Lord Jim, Victory, The Shadow-Line, The Arrow of Gold, The Secret Agent, The Nigger of the Narcissus & Under Western Eyes: Classics of World Literature from One of the Greatest English Novelists (Including Author’s Memoirs, Letters & Critical Essays)
Source: Emerson: A Modern Anthology
Source: Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two
Source: The Complete Works of Joseph Conrad
Source: Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche
Source: The poetical works of James Russell Lowell
“Historians relate not so much what is done as what they would have believed.”
Source: Autobiography and Other Writings
“Writing history is a method of getting rid of the past.”
Source: Criticisms, reflections, and maxims of Goethe: Tr., with an introduction
Source: The Annotated Emerson
“Language is the archives of history.”
Source: Essays and Lectures
“History is the action and reaction of these two, nature and thought.”
Source: The Portable Emerson: New Edition
“A lack of the historical sense is the hereditary fault of all philosophers.”
Source: Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two
Source: All the Essays of Michael Seigneur de Montaigne
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963
Source: The life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., comprehending an account of his studies, and numerous works, in chronological order: a series of his epistolary correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons; and various original pieces of his composition, never before published; the whole exhibiting a view of literature and literary men in Great Britain, for near half a century during which he flourished
“An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.”
Source: Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 2: 1859-1865: Library of America #46
“As soon as histories are properly told there is no more need of romances.”
Source: The basic writings of Bertrand Russell, 1903-1959
“There's no one as transparent as the person who thinks he's devilish deep.”
“The profound thinker always suspects that he is superficial.”
Source: Collected Edition of the Novels and Tales by the Right Honorable B. Disraeli: Contarini Fleming and The rise of Iskander
Source: For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand
“Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.”
Source: Myth, Consciousness, and Psychic Research
“I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.”
Source: Irrepressible Churchill: a treasury of Winston Churchill's wit
“Study history, study history. In history lie all the secrets of statecraft.”