"If you want to study the social and political history of modern nations, study hell." ― Thomas Merton Topic(s): History Tags: study More From Thomas Merton "By reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me and with me. The sky seems to be a pure, a cooler blue, the trees a deeper green. The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet." "Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience." "We are not at peace with others because we are not at peace with ourselves, and we are not at peace with ourselves because we are not at peace with God." More In History "In thus pointing out certain respects in which philosophy resembles literature more than science, I do not mean, of course, to imply that it would be well for philosophy if it ceased to aim at scientific rigor."― Morris Raphael Cohen "If you want to stay in the business then you’ve got to be a bit shrewd, haven’t you?"― Katie Price "The construction of Europe is an art. It is the art of the possible."― Jacques Chirac