Genius and science have burst the limits of space, and few observations, explained by just reasoning, have unveiled the mechanism of the universe. Would it not also be glorious for man to burst the limits...

Converse has history. I want to be part of what comes next.

Peradaban memiliki sifat-sifat umum, internasional, dan diciptakan – Gia ‘Gokalp (1875-1924)

If you haven’t met Kenny (Young) you have not seen how the spirit of Boston can be embodied by one single man.

Revolutionaries – true revolutionaries – are aggressive, ruthless, and generally seize the main chance, as William Henry Drayton did when he saw that stump-speaking was getting him nowhere. But defenders of the status quo tend...

In the deep Mysteries of the world, their belong time, still unexplored and to be explored.

The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.Freeman and slave, patrician and plebeian, lord and serf, guildmaster and journeyman, in a word, oppressor and oppressed, stood in constant opposition to...

There is always a city. There is always a civilization. There is always a barbarian with a pickaxe. Sometimes you are the city, sometimes you are the civilization, but to become that city, that civilization,...

Much of what we call History is the success stories of madmen.

Il segreto più profondo di Olimpia è racchiuso in quest’unica nota cristallina: lottare è un gioco, vivere è un gioco, morire è un gioco; profitti e perdite non sono che distinzioni passeggere, ma il gioco...

A very long time ago, some 2.5 million years B.C., the mother of human species as we know it, our ultimate ancestor, appeared in East Africa… She was four feet tall and probably black..

Every body has role to play in the history of the world.

I sound contemptuous, but I am not. I am interested–intrigued even–by the way time erases real lives, leaving only vague imprints. Blood and spirit fade away so that only names and dates remain.

It’s important to honor your ancestors. Bringing in a piece of furniture or an object you’ve inherited from a loved one not only honors the person who has passed but also brings the warmth of...

And the great owners, who must lose their land in an upheaval, the great owners with access to history, with eyes to read history and to know the great fact: when property accumulates in too...

Your history is not your future.

History is boring, Janice concurred, undaunted as usual. It’s not like the Ride of the Valkyries. It’s what comes before history that isn’t boring.

For indeed, what is more dire than the evils which today afflict the world? What is more terrible for the discerning than the unfolding events? What is more pitiable and frightening for those who endure...

Aside from battles, the history of nations seemed to consist of nothing but powerless old poops like myself, heavily medicated and vaguely beloved in the long ago, coming to kiss the boots of young psychopaths.

You always want to be remembered as one of the greats. We know the history and tradition of this program.

When we died, no one would know, and that fraction of a moment that was so important to who we were would be gone.

The gospel is not mere forgiveness or grace, empty of content, but always refers to Jesus. So the gospel is good news about a human person who is God in our history, our world and...

Let justice be done tho the heavens fall.

Many had suspected that the political disasters of the past few years had a hidden cause. The bloodiness of the French mob rule was something unnatural, with a pitiless and inhuman progression that had never...

Find a unique path and make a successful journey over there! This is the way to have a unique place in the history!

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...

you live through . . . that little piece of time that is yours, but that piece of time is not only your own life, it is the summing-up of all the other lives that...

History tells us that the Fed has always overshot its tightening goal — central bankers like to know the cork is firmly implanted in the bottle so that the inflation genie doesn’t sneak out. The...

We have been cut off, the past has been ended and the family has broken up and the present is adrift in its wheelchair. … That is no gap between the generations, that is a...

The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.

when Muhammad was 25 years old, he traveled once more to Syria as a factor of noble & rich Quraishi widow named Khadijah and having proved himself fatihful in the commercial interest of that lady,...

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.