John Herman Randall > Quotes

“To use history is the only alternative to remaining its slave. To escape a continuing bondage to the past, we must understand the past. Only thus can we make it our servant and instrument, and not leave it our master.”
― John Herman Randall, How Philosophy Uses its Past:

“Ideas are much more lasting than anything else in man's civilization, and those which find themselves in modern minds have roots going back into the immemorial past.”
― John Herman Randall, The Making of the Modern Mind, a Survey of the Int

“Nothing seems so completely outmoded as the modernities of yesterday.”
― John Herman Randall, The Making of the Modern Mind: A Survey of the Intellectual Background of the Present Age