Barbara W. Tuchman Quote

Even if it were possible to cast my horoscope in this one life, and to make an accurate prediction about my future, it would not be possible to 'show' it to me because as soon as I saw it my future wo...

Being the soothsayer of the tribe is a dirty job, but someone has to do it.

Immortality entails not invincibility.

The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation p

To be loved to madness--such was her great desire. Love was to her the one cordial which could drive away the eating loneliness of her days. And she seemed to long for the abstraction called passionat...

Middle-aged people can balance between believing in God and breaking all the commandments without difficulty.

[O]ne has to have endured a few decades before wanting, let alone needing, to embark on the project of recovering lost life. And I think it may be possible to review 'the chronicles of wasted time.' W...

Humans see what they want to see.

People often call fighting racism being 'PC' when they don't want to confront their own prejudice

It is rare indeed that people give. Most people guard and keep; they suppose that it is they themselves and what they identify with themselves that they are guarding and keeping, whereas what they are...