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Heinrich Zimmer

Howard Zinn

Heinrich Zimmer
b. 1890; Greifswald, Germany
d. 1943; New York

Historian and professor Heinrich Zimmer was an Indologist specializing in South Asian art. He is most known for his works, Myths and Symbols in Indian Art and Civilization and Philosophies of India, that were edited for posthumous publication by Joseph Campbell.

Heinrich Zimmer quotes ~
• “With the compelling convincingness of dreams, which are vague yet exact, the ghost voice draws us (to ourselves and all of our component selves), lifts them casually out of the well of the past – the well wherein nothing is lost, the deep well of forgetfulness, and remembrance – and tosses them mockingly on the glassy table surface of our consciousness. There we are forced to consider them. There we are forced to regard, analyze, and re-understand.” The King and the Corpse
• “The best things cannot be told.”
• “Truth appears differently in different lands and ages according to the living materials out of which its symbols are hewn.” Philosophies of India

Howard Zinn
b. 8-24-1922; Brooklyn, NY
d. 1-27-2010; California

Professor Howard Zinn taught political science at Boston University from 1964 to 1988. Among his more than 20 books was the influential “A People's History of the United States”.

Howard Zinn quotes ~
• “Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.”
• “If those in charge of our society - politicians, corporate executives, and owners of press and television - can dominate our ideas, they will be secure in their power. They will not need soldiers patrolling the streets. We will control ourselves.”
• “I'm worried that students will take their obedient place in society and look to become successful cogs in the wheel - let the wheel spin them around as it wants without taking a look at what they're doing. I'm concerned that students not become passive acceptors of the official doctrine that's handed down to them from the White House, the media, textbooks, teachers and preachers.”
• “(Nationalism is) a set of beliefs taught to each generation in which the Motherland or the Fatherland is an object of veneration and becomes a burning cause for which one becomes willing to kill the children of other Motherlands or Fatherlands.”

Xenophon of Athens
b. c. 427 BC; Greece
d. c. 355 BC

Xenophon is known for saving the sayings of Socrates and recording the life of ancient Greece. He is also called the original “horse whisperer” based on his “On Horsemanship”.

Xenophon quotes ~
• “A horse is a thing of beauty. . . none will tire of looking at him as long as he displays himself in his splendor.”
• “The sweetest of all sounds is praise.”

• A History of My Times