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Tacitus
Richard Tarnas

E. P. Thompson

Cornelius Tacitus
b. c. 56; probably in northern Italy or Gallia Narbonensis
d. c. 117 AD

Cornelius Tacitus was a Roman orator, politician, and historian.

Cornelius Tacitus quotes ~
• “Forbidden things have a secret charm.”
• “Reason and calm judgment: the qualities especially belonging to a leader.”
• “You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.”
• “We are corrupted by prosperity.”

• The Complete Works of Tacitus

Richard Tarnas
b. 2-21-1950; Geneva, Switzerland
grew up in Detroit, MI

Richard Tarnas, a cultural historian known for his 1991 book The Passion of the Western Mind: Understanding the Ideas That Have Shaped Our World View and Cosmos and Psyche: Intimations of a New World View, is professor of philosophy and psychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies.

Richard Tarnas quote ~
• “The very nature of the objective universe turns any spiritual faith and ideals into courageous acts of subjectivity, constantly vulnerable to intellectual negation.”

E. P. Thompson
b. 2-3-1924; Oxford, England
d. 8-28-1993; Worcester

Historian, writer, socialist, Communist Party member, and peace campaigner, E. P. Thompson is probably best known today for his historical work on the British radical movements in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, in particular The Making of the English Working Class (1963).

Thompson also wrote biographies of William Morris (subtitled “From Romantic to Revolutionary” 1955) and William Blake (Witness Against the Beast: William Blake and the Moral Law , 1993).

Thompson was influenced by the work of Mikhail Bakunin.

E. P. Thompson quotes ~
• “I have become a prisoner of the peace movement. But you can't say that the termination is coming and then say that you are going back to your own garden to dig.”
• “The missiles come first, and the justifications come second.”

Thucydides
b. c. 460 BC; Halimos, Greece
d. c. 395 BC

The historian Thucydides, called the father of “scientific history” and of “political realism”, was the author of the History of the Peloponnesian War.

FYI - Thucydides survived the typhoid plague that decimated Athens around 430–424 BC, killing one third of the population and ending the Golden Age of Pericles.

Thucydides quotes ~
• “The secret of happiness is freedom. The secret of freedom is courage.”
• “Justice will not come to Athens until those who are not injured are as indignant as those who are injured.”
• “Wars spring from unseen and generally insignificant causes, the first outbreak being often but an explosion of anger.”
• “History is Philosophy teaching by examples.”
• “The superior gratification derived from the use and contemplation of costly and supposedly beautiful products is, commonly, in great measure a gratification of our sense of costliness masquerading under the name of beauty.”