Lynn Townsend White Jr. Quotes

#1. [T]he historian lays humanity on the couch.

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#2. 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.

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

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#4. 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.

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#5. 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.

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#6. 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, your the government.

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#7. Knowledge Qf history frees us to be contemporary.

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#8. History is a means of access to ourselves.

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

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