The past is the present and the future too.
The line was adopted from Eugene O'Neill. See XXX.
Legends die hard. They survive as truth rarely does.
Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity.
Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.
There is an orderliness in the universe, there is an unalterable law governing everything and every being that exists or lives. It is no blind law; for no blind law can govern the conduct of living beings.
Once the last trace of emotion has been eradicated, nothing remains of thought but absolute tautology.
Principles don't die. They aren't here one day and gone the next. They can't be destroyed by fire, earthquake or theft. Principles are deep, fundamental truths, classic truths.
For God's sake build not your faith upon Tradition, 'tis as rotten as a rotten Post.
There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before.
I don't subscribe to relativism, whether it's in political philosophy, foreign policy or in life.
The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.