We Are What We Repeatedly

By And Large The Poor Have The Same Impulses As The Rich, With Only Less Opportunity Or Skill To Implement Them

Civilizaton Is The Interval Between Ice Ages.

A History Of Civilization Shares The Presumptuousness Of Every Philosophical Enterprise: It Offers The Ridiculous Spectacle Of A Fragment Expounding The Whole. Like Philosophy, Such A Venture Has No Rational Excuse, And Is At Best But A Brave Stupidity; But Let Us Hope That, Like Philosophy, It Will Always Lure Some Rash Spirits Into Its Fatal Depths.

I Feel For All Faiths The Warm Sympathy Of One Who Has Come To Learn That Even The Trust In Reason Is A Precarious Faith, And That We Are All Fragments Of Darkness Groping For The Sun. I Know No More About The Ultimates Than The Simplest Urchin In The Streets.

Bankers Know That History Is Inflationary And That Money Is The Last Thing A Wise Man Will Hoard