If the past cannot teach the present and the father cannot teach the son, then history need not have bothered to go on, and the world has wasted a great deal of time.

Quote by Russell Hoban

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There are situations in life to which the only satisfactory response is a physically violent...

There are situations in life to which the only satisfactory response is a physically violent...

Nothing to be done really about animals. Anything you do looks foolish. The answer isn't...

Nothing to be done really about animals. Anything you do looks foolish. The answer isn't...

Sometimes I think that the biggest difference between men and women is that more men...

Sometimes I think that the biggest difference between men and women is that more men...

An idea is an eye given by God for the seeing of God. Some of...

An idea is an eye given by God for the seeing of God. Some of...

Language is an archaeological vehicle... the language we speak is a whole palimpsest of human...

Language is an archaeological vehicle... the language we speak is a whole palimpsest of human...

Explorers have to be ready to die lost.

Explorers have to be ready to die lost.

After all, when you come right down to it, how many people speak the same...

After all, when you come right down to it, how many people speak the same...

When you suffer an attack of nerves you're being attacked by the nervous system. What...

When you suffer an attack of nerves you're being attacked by the nervous system. What...

Language is an archaeological vehicle... the language we speak is a whole palimpsest of human...

Language is an archaeological vehicle... the language we speak is a whole palimpsest of human...

But when I don't smoke I scarcely feel as if I'm living. I don't feel...

But when I don't smoke I scarcely feel as if I'm living. I don't feel...

An idea is an eye given by God for the seeing of God. Some of...

An idea is an eye given by God for the seeing of God. Some of...

To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would...

To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would...

Ideas are the raw material of progress. Everything first takes shape in the form of...

Ideas are the raw material of progress. Everything first takes shape in the form of...

An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell...

An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell...

When an idea exclusively occupies the mind, it is transformed into an actual physical or...

When an idea exclusively occupies the mind, it is transformed into an actual physical or...

Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule,...

Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule,...

Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. In the long...

Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. In the long...

Painting is a nail to which I fasten my ideas.

Painting is a nail to which I fasten my ideas.

I had no idea of the enormous and unquestionably helpful part that humbug plays in...

I had no idea of the enormous and unquestionably helpful part that humbug plays in...

Everyone is in love with his own ideas

Everyone is in love with his own ideas