— Voltaire
Category: History
Man can be traced to about a million years before Christ. Agriculture can be traced no farther back than to 25,000 B.C. Man has lived forty times longer as a hunter than as a tiller of the soil in a settled life. In those 975,000 years his basic nature was formed and remains to challenge civilization every day
— Will Durant
It is a mistake to think that the past is dead. It is the present, not the past, that dies; It is only the past that lives…
— Will Durant It is a mistake to think that the past is dead. Nothing that has ever happened is quite without influence at this moment. The present is merely the past rolled up and concentrated in this second of time. You, too, are your past; often your face is your autobiography; you are what
So the more you know, the more you don’t know. And if you’re smart, you know it!
— Bill Bonner History Is Mostly Bunk Yes, we’re serious. History only tells part of the story. And as Henry Ford put it, it is mostly “bunk.” A person who is ignorant of history knows nothing. But at least he is aware that his ignorance is unblemished by phony knowledge. The person who knows something,
In an 1862 letter to Horace Greeley, editor of the influential New York Tribune, President Abraham Lincoln wrote:
My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could save
Testosterone is a powerful psychotropic chemical. It can warp judgment just as surely as alcohol and cocaine…
— Richard Maybury We have 21st century minds, but our brains and bodies are from the Paleolithic. That’s when humans became humans. Compared to the condition of our ancestors, we of the modern unnatural world are fantastically hale and hearty. But — my key point — today’s male is walking around with the amount of testosterone necessary to