The Dance Is The Mother

The Value Of History. ..is That It Teaches Us What Man Has Done And Thus What Man Is.

History Is For Human Self-knowledge. Knowing Yourself Means Knowing, First, What It Is To Be A Person; Secondly, Knowing What It Is To Be The Kind Of Person You Are; And Thirdly, Knowing What It Is To Be The Person You Are And Nobody Else Is. Knowing Yourself Means Knowing What You Can Do; And Since Nobody Knows What They Can Do Until They Try, The Only Clue To What Man Can Do Is What Man Has Done. The Value Of History, Then, Is That It Teaches Us What Man Has Done And Thus What Man Is.

The Artist Must Prophesy Not In The Sense That He Foretells Things To Come, But In The Sense That He Tells His Audience, At The Risk Of Their Displeasure, The Secrets Of Their Own Hearts

Perfect Freedom Is Reserved For The Man Who Lives By His Own Work, And In That Work Does What He Wants To Do.

The History Of Thought, And Therefore All History, Is The Re-enactment Of Past Thought In The Historian's Own Mind.