The history of thought may be summed up in these words: it is absurd by what it seeks and great by what it finds.
To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't everything.
Whatever can be noted historically can be found within history.
In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.
History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.
