Degeneration/history

Famous quotes containing the words degeneration and/or history:

“Where does one not find that bland degeneration which beer produces in the spirit!”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

“While the Republic has already acquired a history world-wide, America is still unsettled and unexplored. Like the English in New Holland, we live only on the shores of a continent even yet, and hardly know where the rivers come from which float our navy.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)