Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

[They can] shout down the head of the physics department at Cal Tech.

[They can] shout down the head of the physics department at Cal Tech.

War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading.

War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading.

History is nothing but a pack of tricks that we play on the dead.

History is nothing but a pack of tricks that we play on the dead.

The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.

The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.

The wisdom of hindsight, so useful to historians and indeed to authors of memoirs, is sadly denied to practicing politicians.

The wisdom of hindsight, so useful to historians and indeed to authors of memoirs, is sadly denied to practicing politicians.

Happy is the nation without a history.

Happy is the nation without a history.

A man can be a hero if he is a scientist, or a soldier, or a drug addict, or a read more

A man can be a hero if he is a scientist, or a soldier, or a drug addict, or a disc jockey, or a crummy mediocre politician. A man can be a hero because he suffers and despairs; or because he thinks logically and analytically; or because he is "sensitive;" or because he is cruel. Wealth establishes a man as a hero, and so does poverty. Virtually any circumstance in a man's life will make him a hero to some group of people and has a mythic rendering in the culture -- in literature, art, theater, or the daily newspapers.

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.