"Each one writes history according to his convenience."

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“Law has no skin, reason has no nostrils.”

“The world laughs at another man's pain.”

“Genius has no country. It blossoms everywhere. Genius is like the light, the air. It is the heritage of all.”

“Virtue lies in the middle ground.”

“No, let us not make God in our image, poor inhabitants that we are of a distant planet lost in infinite space. However brilliant and sublime our intelligence may be, it is scarcely more than a small spark which shines and in an instant is extinguished, and it alone can give us no idea of that blaze, that conflagration, that ocean of light.”

“Truth does not need to borrow garments from error.”

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"The book of Philippine history is far from finished. However, does every sentence in our country’s story need to be finished with a period?"

— Francis Escudero

Politics1969

#history

"There is one type of functional advantage that enjoys in this dark struggle unique status and deserves special attention. As the force of path dependency in history wanes, and as different forms of li…"

— Roberto Mangabeira Unger

Philosophy1947

#mind

"My family history is made of migration; it’s something that’s part of my own complexity."

— Mati Diop

Entertainment1982

#art

"In telling this tale I attempt no compliment to my own sagacity. I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me. Now, at the end of three years struggle the …"

— Abraham Lincoln

Politics1744–1786

#justice