Africa Has No History And Did Not

When We Walk The Streets At Night In Safety, It Does Not Strike Us That This Might Be Otherwise. This Habit Of Feeling Safe Has Become Second Nature, And We Do Not Reflect On Just How This Is Due Solely To The Working Of Special Institutions. Commonplace Thinking Often Has The Impression That Force Holds The State Together, But In Fact Its Only Bond Is The Fundamental Sense Of Order Which Everybody Possesses.

Once The State Has Been Founded, There Can No Longer Be Any Heroes. They Come On The Scene Only In Uncivilized Conditions.

To Make Abstractions Hold In Reality Is To Destroy Reality.

People Who Are Too Fastidious Towards The Finite Never Reach Actuality, But Linger In Abstraction, And Their Light Dies Away.

Reading The Morning Newspaper Is The Realist's Morning . One Orients One's Attitude Toward The Either By Or By What The World Is. The Former Gives As Much Security As The Latter, In That One Knows How One Stands.