Richard Kirwan quotes

Geological facts being of an historical nature, all attempts to deduce a complete knowledge of them merely from their still, subsisting consequences, to the exclusion of unexceptionable testimony, must be deemed as absurd as that of deducing the history of ancient Rome solely from the medals or other monuments of antiquity it still exhibits, or the scattered ruins of its empire, to the exclusion of a Livy, a Sallust, or a Tacitus.
-- Richard Kirwan

#Rome #Historical #Empires

I just love Rome. It really does cast a spell on you.

Ask me that again next month, when you're all in Dhaka and I'm in Rome, watching Chelsea playing Lazio!

If you are at Rome live in the Roman style; if you are elsewhere live as they live elsewhere.

Rome is not outside me, but inside me.. Her feverish sweetness, her tragic countryside, her own beauty and harmony, all these are mine, for my thought and my work.

The greater the lie, the greater the chance that it will be believed.

I can not be mistaken - what I say and do is historical.I follow my life with the precision and security of a sleep walker

Narcissism and the Confederate dead cannot be connected logically, or even historically; even were the connection an historical fact, they would not stand connected as art, for no one experiences raw history.

The American empire should be destroyed.

The achieved West had given the United States something that no people had ever had before, an internal, domestic empire.

I see a New York that is once again the empire state.