The History Of The World

The Owl Of Minerva Spreads Its Wings Only With The Falling Of The Dusk.

Quite Generally, The Familiar, Just Because It Is Familiar, Is Not Cognitively Understood. The Commonest Way In Which We Deceive Either Ourselves Or Others About Understanding Is By Assuming Something As Familiar, And Accepting It On That Account; With All Its Pros And Cons, Such Knowing Never Gets Anywhere, And It Knows Not Why.... The Analysis Of An Idea, As It Used To Be Carried Out, Was, In Fact, Nothing Else Than Ridding It Of The Form In Which It Had Become Familiar.

The Heart-throb For The Welfare Of Humanity Therefore Passes Into The Ravings Of An Insane Self-conceit, Into The Fury Of Consciousness To Preserve Itself From Destruction; And It Does This By Expelling From Itself The Perversion Which It Is Itself, And By Striving To Look On It And Express It As Something Else.

The Heart Is Everywhere, And Each Part Of The Organism Is Only The Specialized Force Of The Heart Itself.

What History Teaches Us Is That Neither Nations Nor Governments Ever Learn Anything From It.