There comes a time in the history of nations when their peoples must become fully reconciled to their past if they are to go forward with confidence to embrace their future.

As nations we should also commit afresh to righting past wrongs. In Australia we began this recently with the first Australians - the oldest continuing culture in human history. On behalf of the Australian Parliament, this year I offered an apology to indigenous Australians for the wrongs they had suffered in the past.

As a universal history of philosophy, the history of philosophy must become one great unity.

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

A generation which ignores history has no past — and no future.

What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past