Famous Quotes

"When the rose and the cross are united the alchemical marriage is complete and the drama ends. Then we wake from history and enter eternity."

Robert Anton Wilson on History

More quotes about History

• "Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."

  Confucius on History

• "The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew."

  Abraham Lincoln on History

• "A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history."

  Mahatma Gandhi on History

• "The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little."

  Franklin D. Roosevelt on History

• "I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past."

  Thomas Jefferson on History

More quotes by Robert Anton Wilson

• "The longer one is alone, the easier it is to hear the song of the earth."

• "The Right's view of government and the Left's view of big business are both correct."

• "A monopoly on the means of communication may define a ruling elite more precisely than the celebrated Marxian formula of monopoly in the means of production."

• "Belief is the death of intelligence."

• "The abandoned infant's cry is rage, not fear."