[T]he historian lays humanity on the couch.
Knowledge Qf history frees us to be contemporary. - Lynn Townsend White, Jr.
Knowledge Qf history frees us to be contemporary.
- Lynn Townsend White, Jr.
We live in an era when rapid change breeds fear, and fear too often congeals us into a rigidity which we mistake for stability. - Lynn Townsend White, Jr.
We live in an era when rapid change breeds fear, and fear too often congeals us into a rigidity which we mistake for stability.
History is a means of access to ourselves. - Lynn Townsend White, Jr.
History is a means of access to ourselves.
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. - Lynn Townsend White, Jr.
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.
The past in the hands of historians is not what it was. - Lynn Townsend White, Jr.
The past in the hands of historians is not what it was.
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. - Lynn Townsend White, Jr.
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.
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… - Lynn Townsend White, Jr.
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…
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 sor… - Lynn Townsend White, Jr.
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 sor…
Both our present science and our present technology are so tinctured with orthodox Christian arrogance toward nature that no solution for our ecologi… - Lynn Townsend White, Jr.
Both our present science and our present technology are so tinctured with orthodox Christian arrogance toward nature that no solution for our ecologi…
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