Alphonse Marie Louis Prat de Lamartine Quote

History fades into fable; fact becomes clouded with doubt and controversy.

The best of prophets of the future is the past

Antiquity! thou wondrous charm, what art thou? that, being nothing, art every thing!

The grand perhaps! We look on helplessly, there the old misgivings, crooked questions are

The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments.

I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral