“If memory is the thread of personal identity, history is the thread of community identity.”

“Human life without knowledge of history is nothing other than a perpetual childhood, nay, a permanent obscurity and darkness. -Philip Melanchthon”

“We are like dwarfs standing on the shoulders of giants; thanks to them, we see farther than they. Busying ourselves with the treatises written by the ancients, we take their choice thoughts, buried by age and human neglect, and we raise them, as it were from death to renewed life." -Peter of Blois (d. 1212).”

“Human identity is no longer defined by what one does but rather by what one owns.”

“Life is like a landscape. You live in the midst of it, but can describe it only from the vantage point of distance.”

“What is wrong with being a devout follower? Is it not acceptable to be sad and alone, if you remain loyal and obedient?”

“Be original. That’s all that matters........Take inspiration from others, but always make something new.”