Pinnacle/history

Famous quotes containing the words pinnacle and/or history:

“The stern hand of fate has scourged us to an elevation where we can see the great everlasting things which matter for a nation—the great peaks we had forgotten, of Honour, Duty, Patriotism, and, clad in glittering white, the great pinnacle of Sacrifice pointing like a rugged finger to Heaven.”
—David Lloyd George (1863–1945)

“The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments.”
—William James (1842–1910)