[T]he historian lays humanity on the couch.

We shall continue to have a worsening ecologic crisis until we reject the Christian axiom that nature has no reason for existence save to serve man.

More science and more technology are not going to get us out of the present ecological crises until we find a new religion, or rethink our old one.

History is a means of access to ourselves.

If you owe $50, you're a delinquent account. If you owe $50,000, you're a small businessmen. If you owe $50 million, you're a corporation. If you owe $50 billion, you're the government.

The past in the hands of historians is not what it was.

Ibn Firnas was a polymath: a physician, a rather bad poet, the first to make glass from stones (quartz), a student of music, and inventor of some sort of metronome.

We live in an era when rapid change breeds fear, and fear too often congeals us into a rigidity which we mistake for stability.

Knowledge Qf history frees us to be contemporary.

90% of the game is half mental.

I do not like vaudeville, but what can I do? It likes me.

My mother kept alive the best part for my sister and me. At the same time, she's always been someone who's very straight and solid, which wasn't that -common in families with "'68er" parents.

When you write down your life, every page should contain something no one has ever heard about

One's existence should be in two parts: one should live like a bourgeois and think like a demigod.

I would have none of that rigid circumspect charity which is never done without scrutiny, and which always mistrusts the truth of the necessities laid open to it.

And to the faithful: death, the gate of life.

It is usual to think of good and evil as two poles, two opposite directions, the antithesis of one another...We must begin by doing away with this convention.

Still the most intense pleasure's but a splinter of ice on the gallons of lava that gush from my cracked heart.

Why is this so hard?” I whispered. His pulse leaped crazily at my admission. “Everything worth fighting for is hard.