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History is an amazing presence–it is the place where vanished time gathers. While we are in the flow of time, it is difficult to glean its significance, and it is only in looking back that...

Dio quanto è bella” pensò l’uomo avvicinandosi alla giovane che aveva lasciato due mesi prima. Vedere quegli occhi, quei lunghi capelli corvini legati in una treccia come ricordava di averli visti quella prima sera insieme...

A historian is a risk-terrified prophet.

If you study a historical episode and feel good about it, it probably means that you haven’t had it explained very well. Historical conflict is usually the struggle of different conceptions of what is good.

Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and torturous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness, with which more than half the Bible is filled, it would be more consistent that we called it...

Wilier races had interbred with human race during immemorial.Therefore no need to look for them on anywhere but in ourselves.

Not everyone believed in marriage then. To marry was to say you believed in the future and in the past, too – that history and tradition and hope could stay knit together to hold you...

As history has also shown, especially in the twentieth century, one of the first things an ideologue will do after achieving absolute power is kill.

Washington once advised his adopted grandson that where there is no occasion for expressing an opinion, it is best to be silent. For there is nothing more certain than that it is at all times...

The philosopher cannot seriously put to himself questions that his civilization has not lived.

Indeed it is generally the case that men are readier to call rogues clever than simpletons honest, and are ashamed of being the second as they are proud of being the first.

Jean-Baptiste Say may have coined the term ‘entrepreneur’ but he totally missed the opportunity to put it on a t-shirt and sell it.

The greatest Americans have not been born yet they are waiting patiently for the past to die.

The student is to read history actively not passively.

There are certain men who are sacrosanct in history; you touch on the truth of them at your peril. These are such men as Socrates and Plato, Pericles and Alexander, Caesar and Augustus, Marcus Aurelius...

Learn from your history, but don’t live in it.

Of that time, there is still much we do not know.

History is no more fixed and dead than the future. The past is no further away than the last breath you took.

evolved” into an ape that ended up as Leonardo Da Vinci is an attitude that comes in conflict with the scientific method of research and it certainly violates its standard principles.

Left to themselves, humans have always managed their own affairs creatively and well. Indeed, for most of human evolution and history people have lived peaceful, co-operative lives without rulers, leaders, politicians, soldiers, policemen and taxmen.

(…) Sir Boris had fought and killed the Paynim; Sir Gawain, the Turk; Sir Miles, the Pole; Sir Andrew, the Frank; Sir Richard, the Austrian; Sir Jordan, the Frenchman; and Sir Herbert, the Spaniard. But...

The appeal to the intellectually insecure is also more important than it might seem. Because economics touches so much of life, everyone wants to have an opinion. Yet the kind of economics covered in the...

Everything that highly educated men can do to obscure a simple truth, to make a woman doubt her feelings, to make her own thoughts a muddle, they do to her. They use their learning as...

As we celebrate Black History Month, it is especially troubling that President Bush would release a budget that drastically cuts student aid, Medicaid, child support and funding for the disabled.

It was now December 7, 1941; the date that Franklin D. Roosevelt was destined to declare would live in infamy.

Have and show motivation to do and learn. That’s the key for a good career. Everything else is an extrapolation of that.

Poetry is a tool for writers to create literature in different forms of expression and messages.

A wise man is someone who knows how to convert obstacles into resources.

There was something so heavy about the burden of history, of the past. I wasn’t sure I had it in me to keep looking back.

My hope is that history will continue to repeat itself,

All our ancient history, as one of our wits remarked, is no more than accepted fiction.

It is important to know the stories and histories of things, even if all we know is that we don’t know.

There are no lessons to be learned from the past. This is the first thing I learned from it. There is nothing back then that there isn’t here now. There is nothing here now –...

They need only to look at him, hear his name, and the last of reason goes up in smoke. They sink into a state of befuddlement.

What was needed, was not merely a resolute man, but a man who was also free from the net of legal controls. Such being the circumstances, Quinctius declared that he would nominate Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus...

America is the world’s top war-master; the most sophisticated killer-culture in history.

Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defense of the rich against the poor, or of those who have some property against those...

Sir, I shall not defeat you – I shall transcend you.

So much of history is mystery. We don’t know what is lost forever, what will surface again. All objects exist in a moment of time. And that fragment of time is preserved or lost or...

The NHS will last as long as there are folk left with faith to fight for it

Your Highness, we are at a critical juncture in our nation’s history. The disruption of our oil supply was the final straw. It wrecked the economy. Japan is in ruins; millions are out of work....

Try this for deviancy: fabricants are mirrors held up to purebloods’ conscience; what purebloods see reflected there sickens them. So they blame you for holding the mirror.”I hid my shock by asking when purebloods might...

Very often the test of one’s allegiance to a cause or to a people is precisely the willingness to stay the course when things are boring, to run the risk of repeating an old argument...

At a time in our nation’s history when we are using the words ‘identity theft,’ this report reinforces the vital, trusted role the Postal Service plays in our daily lives.

The people in Japan know more about the history of jazz and the musicians than the people in the United States do.

Psychology has a long past, yet its real history is short.

The only Thought which Philosophy brings with it to the contemplation of History, is the simple conception of Reason; that Reason is the Sovereign of the World; that the history of the world, therefore, presents...

People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history.

It is the human habit to think in centuries from a grandparent to a grandchild because it just does take about a hundred years for things to cease to have the same meaning as they...