David Withun

“To delve into history entails, besides the grievance of hard work, the danger that in the depths one may lose one’s scapegoats.”
― Jacques Barzun, The Energies of Art: Studies of Authors, Classic and Modern

“All actual life is encounter.”
― Martin Buber

“Sometimes I think it is my mission to bring faith to the faithless, and doubt to the faithful.”
― Paul Tillich

“Except among those whose education has been in the minimalist style, it is understood that hasty moral judgments about people in the past are a form of injustice.”
― Jacques Barzun, From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life, 1500 to the Present