Philosophy-of-history Quotes

[W]orship, if not the child, is at leastthe brother, of fear.

Fear of death, wonder at the causes of chance events or unintelligible happenings, hope for divine a...

In some way the god had to be appeased and satisfied; for his worshipers had made him in the image a...

[V]irtue is not news, and virtuous men, like happy nations, have no history.

The story of the "bondage" in Egypt, of the use of the Jews as slaves in great construction enterpri...

[I]ndeed, one hears, in early Christian theology, as many echoes of Persian dualism as of Hebrew Pur...