Quotes by Philosophers Of History

It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.

Civilization is a movement and not a condition a voyage and not a harbor.

Anxiety and conscience are a powerful pair of dynamos. Between them they have ensured that I shall work hard but they cannot ensure that one shall work at anything worthwhile.

The history of almost every civilization furnishes examples of geographical expansion coinciding with deterioration in quality.