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An illuminating read for every classical scholar engaged with the current quest for the subject's roots, and the excavation of the way that it…

— Edith Hall

“So again and again we see how under the prevailing paradigm our real past—and the original thrust of our cultural evolution—can only be seen…

— Riane Eisler

“It was civilization itself which inflicted this wound upon modern man. Once the increase of empirical knowledge, and more exact modes of thought, made…

— Friedrich von Schiller

I think we live in a period of profound transformation. Very similar to when we had a transition from agricultural societies to industrial societies.

— Angela Merkel

Certainly one is brought to the brink of one's sense of who one is, what one has to do, why me, why now, why…

— Jean Houston

“As every good marxist already knows, the ideological shift toward a terminally optimistic humanism was vital to the rise of bourgeoisie, and the decline…

— Terre Thaemlitz

I cannot escape from the conclusion that the great ages of progress have depended upon a small number of individuals of transcendent ability.

— Bertrand Russell

“It is not until an age has receded into history, and all its mediocrity has dropped away from it, that we can see it…

— Arnold Bennett

“You are aware, my dear sir,—you must have observed it in your own experience,—that all human progress is in a circle; or, to use…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“The swift changes in our industrial system are causing equally swift changes in our religious, political, and social structures. An unseen and fearful revolution…

— Jack London

“The fragility of the veneer of civilization astonished him. Yet we take it for granted because, being born into it, we have no other…

— Thomas DiMauro

“Wasn't modernism's greatest coup to destroy the notion of progression? And yet it still comes back in history books, in dialectical materialism, in the…

— Chris Kraus