Whether he is aware of it or not, every human being dwells in tradition and history. Human memory is this constant dwelling in tradition. It constitutes that fundamental human characteristic of historicity. – Medard Boss
Why cant somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and nobody says, and another list of things that everybody says and nobody thinks. – Oliver Wendell Holmes
Watch a man in times of… adversity to discover what kind of man he is; for then at last words of truth are drawn from the depths of his heart, and the mask is torn off. – Lucretius, On the Nature of Things
Any relations in a social order will endure, if there is infused into them some of that spirit of human sympathy which qualifies life for immortality. – George William Russell
