Goodrich was the biggest acquisition in the history of aerospace.
Thus the aristocracy took their revenge by singing lampoons on their new master, and whispering in his ears sinister prophecies of coming catastrophe. In this way arose feudal Socialism; half lamentation, half lampoon; half echo of the past, half men...
The history of interactions among disparate peoples is what shaped the modern world through conquest, epidemics and genocide. Those collisions created reverberations that have still not died down after many centuries, and that are actively continuing...
Since ancient times, sacred texts from around the world foretold about a time period in human history when a mighty demi-god would appear on earth. Whether we call this figure Perseus, Krishna, or Messiah, he is epitomized in the figure of Jesus Chri...
Whether Hindus or Greeks, Egyptians or Japanese, Chinese, Sumerians, or ancient Americans -- or even Romans, the most "modern" among people of antiquity -- they all placed the Golden Age, the Age of Truth, the rule of Kronos or of Ra or of any other ...
One of the anomalies of modern ecology is the creation of two groups, each of which seems barely aware of the existence of the other. The one studies the human community, almost as if it were a separate entity, and calls its findings sociology, econo...
...there is much more to matter than modern science currently would like to acknowledge. By developing insights about the observer, we can describe matter in a new way.
If it is true that we cannot possess knowledge of what is good in any absolute sense, it is equally true that we have an ethical duty to decide between what is better and what is worse.
Clearly, imagining cannot be expected to mean exactly the same thing today as it did in the Middle Ages or antiquity. For one thing, Aristotle and Aquinas never watched television.
In a liquid modern life there are no permanent bonds, and any that we take up for a time must be tied loosely so that they can be untied again, as quickly and as effortlessly as possible, when circumstances change - as they surely will in our liquid ...
History repeats itself.
Not only is history useless, but the historian should take pride in its uselessness.
Universities are the cathedrals of the modern age. They shouldn't have to justify their existence by utilitarian criteria.
Superficiality is the curse of the modern world.
I used to dance when I was younger - ballet and modern dance.
The great watershed of modern poetry is French, more than English.
The tenuousness of modern life can make anyone feel overwrought.
Nature will take precedence over the needs of the modern man.
Women, it turns out, are built to lead - particularly in the modern world.
The history of saints is mainly the history of insane people.
The history of mankind is the history of ideas.
