Occupation: Historian Birth: January 14, 1882 Death: March 11, 1944
In history as in life it is success that counts. Start a political upheaval and let yourself be caught, and you will hang as a traitor. But place you….
In such a case the writer is apt to have recourse to epigrams. Somewhere in this world there is an epigram for every dilemma..
The world is in dreadful need of men who will assume the new leadership - who will have the courage of their own visions and who will recognise clear….
A few drops of science will often disinfect an entire barrel full of ignorance and prejudice..
Nature is rarely allowed to enter the sacred portals of civilized society..
Great art... is the result of the labours of thousands of faithful craftsmen who know that they are doomed to remain for ever outside the gates of th….
....This world needs Utopias as it needs fairy stories. It does not matter so much where we are going, as long as we are making consciously for some ….
High in the North in a land called Svithjod there is a mountain. It is a hundred miles long and a hundred miles high and once every thousand years a ….
Any formal attack on ignorance is bound to fail because the masses are always ready to defend their most precious possession - their ignorance..
The arts are an even better barometer of what is happening in our world than the stock market or the debates in congress..
The history of the world is the record of a man in quest of his daily bread and butter..
The foundation for a new era was laid but yesterday. The human was given its first chance to become truly civilised when it took courage to question ….
It is little enough we know and the rest is darkness..
An ignorant person is, by the very fact of his or her ignorance, a very dangerous person..
Life means progress, and progress means suffering..