Many historical figures supposed to be influential are chiefly so among the cataloguers of influence.
Sep 242014
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People throughout history have died mostly of being in the way.
Sep 222014
The historical imagination is simply the recognition that then was someone’s now.
Sep 192014
Most of the great art ever produced has been destroyed, forgotten, or unrecognized.
Sep 182014
To read well you have to live a little.
Sep 172014
You can’t be a polymath without the math.
Sep 162014
Man oscillates continuously between wishing to remain exactly as he is and wishing to become something, anything else.
Sep 152014
Sanity is correspondence at the expense of coherence. Madness is coherence at the expense of correspondence.
Sep 122014
Attention begets all virtue, distraction all vice.
Sep 112014
Two hundred years ago to call a man a poet implied that he was a god; today it implies that he is a fool.