If religion is opium of the people, so is politics. We have two dogs set at each other, a dull entertainment for the overexcited voters.

Studying history is very humbling. It makes you realize the insignificance of one man, one society, one country, one culture. Larger powers rose and came into ashes, long before you, fretting over something someone said.

This whole ignorant society would definitely benefit from learning from the past. In history alone, there’s an example, AND a counterexample, validating (and invalidating) certain pattern of reasoning. Instead of quarreling with your neighbor over some political idea, you could instead check the quality of reasoning behind it, by comparing it with it’s countless historical examples and equivalents.

I am not a student of history, however.

I am not a student of history, nor will I be.

I am not interested in accumulating knowledge.

The whole history of mankind is merely a reflection of the elementary human nature.

There is no history of some wolves pack living in some forest! One could describe some wolf hunting for some rabbit and mating with another and so it goes but… knowing one of them – one knows all of them.

The true knowledge, and the only knowledge, is the self-knowledge.

Know yourself, and you shall know others.

Know others, and you shall know the whole humanity.

Know humanity, and you shall know it’s history.