“The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.”

“The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson comsist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different”

“De Sade is the one completely consistent and thoroughgoing revolutionary of history.”

“That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.”

“And the present sheared asunder from the past, like an iceberg sheared off from its frozen parent cliffs, and went sailing out to sea in lonely pride. All the past ages had accomplished was as nothing.”

“Our epoch has been give many nicknames--the Age of Anxiety, the Atomic Age, the Space Age. It might, with equally good reason, be called the Age of Television Addiction, the Age of Soap Opera, the Age of the Disk Jockey.”

“Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead.”