“ Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own. ”
Much can be inferred about a man from his mistress: in her one beholds his weaknesses and his dreams.
~ Georg C. Lichtenberg
Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.
The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism.
What is the good of drawing conclusions from experience? I don't deny we sometimes draw the right conclusions, but don't we just as often draw the wrong ones?
