Famous quotes containing the words european, source and/or book:
“Of course, in the reality of history, the Machiavellian view which glorifies the principle of violence has been able to dominate. Not the compromising conciliatory politics of humaneness, not the Erasmian, but rather the politics of vested power which firmly exploits every opportunity, politics in the sense of the “Principe,” has determined the development of European history ever since.”
—Stefan Zweig (18811942)
“There is no such source of error as the pursuit of absolute truth.”
—Samuel Butler (1835–1902)
“The book has never been written which is to be accepted without any allowance.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)