Time present and time past are both perhaps present in time future, and time future contained in time past.
What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.
We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.
G.K. Chesterton·1908Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead.
Henry Ford·1916I don't know whether Napoleon did or did not try to get across there and I don't care. I don't know much about history, and I wouldn't give a nickel for all the history in the world. It means nothing to me. History is more or less bunk. It's tradition. We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's damn is the history we make today.
John Adams·1780I must study politics and war, that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce, and agriculture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain.
