

“The present is the past rolled up for action, and the past is the present unrolled for understanding.”
― The Lessons of History
― The Lessons of History

“Science tells us how to heal and how to kill; it reduces the death rate in retail and then kills us wholesale in war; but only wisdom—desire coordinated in the light of all experience—can tell us when to heal and when to kill.”
― The Story of Philosophy
― The Story of Philosophy

“A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself within”
― The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers
― The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers
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