On the breast of that huge Mississippi of falsehood called History, a foam-bell more or less is no consequence.

Philistine must have originally meant, in the mind of those who invented the nickname, a strong, dogged, unenlightened opponent of the children of the light.

The great apostle of the Philistines, Lord Macaulay.

Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive and wisely effective mode of saying things, and hence its importance.

What is history after all? History is facts which become lies in the end; legends are lies which become history in the end.

The prophet is appointed to oppose the kind, and even more: history.

Mankind can hardly be too often reminded, that there was once a man named Socrates, between whom and the legal authorities and public opinion of his time, ther…