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Quote by Paul Valery
The history of thought may be summed up in these words: it is absu

The history of thought may be summed up in these words: it is absurd by what it seeks and great by what it finds. – Paul Valery

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Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature. – Paul Valery

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Every beginning is a consequence — every beginning ends some thing. – Paul Valery

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History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul. – Lord Acton

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There is no such thing as a neutral or purely objective historian. Without an opinion a historian would be simply a ticking clock, and unreadable besides. – Philip Howard

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History… is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake. – James Joyce, Ulysses

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