Only a fool would try to compress a hundred centuries into a hundred pages of hazardous conclusions. We proceed.

A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within.

Education is the transmission of civilization.

It is good a philosopher should remind himself, now and then, that he is a particle pontificating on infinity.

Today's rebel is tomorrow's tyrant.

No man who is in a hurry is quite civilised.

Man, not the earth, makes civilization.

The conservative who resists change is as valuable as the radical who proposes it.

If you have character, endeavor, personality, courage and the capacity for concentrated labor, you will do what is your destiny – and, perhaps, even do it well.

The laws of biology are the fundamental lessons of history.

When his apprenticeship was finished (the candidate for Knighthood) was received into the Knightly Order by a ritual of sacramental awe.

He’d gone too far. He didn’t usually talk to women so frankly. Not with them both fully clothed anyway.

You are free to do anything you want, provided you are not a beneficiary of others effort.

Cheers to all the Rebels out there who care way too much about Art and Truth and Magic to fall in line with the mundane task of fitting in.

By passing your GCSEs you prove that you’re not an idiot… But by passing your A levels you prove that you’re smart

I believe in absolute freedom of expression. Everyone has a right to offend and be offended.

The intelligent minority of this world will mark 1 January 2001 as the real beginning of the 21st century and the Third Millennium.

I've often gotten the feeling that the only people who have learned from computer assisted instruction are the authors.

When politics is elevated over business, economic disaster follows.

If you're afraid to be wrong you'll never do anything creative.

I don't know what kind of egomaniac is sitting at home thinking about the impact they have had on the culture. It's not something I actually think about until it comes up.