Now what is history? It is the centuries of systematic explorations of the riddle of death, with a view to overcoming death. That’s why people discover mathematical infinity and electromagnetic waves, that’s why they write...

The US military and the CIA got busy working on plans for the conquest of Cuba. And it would be no Mickey Mouse boat operation this time. This time, Fidel Castro and his hairy henchmen...

La historia es una increíble cantidad de manotazos por todos lados, algunos agarran la manija y otros se quedan con los dedos en el aire, pero cuando sumás el todo por ahí te da la...

History looks queer when you’re standing close to it, watching where it is coming from and how it’s being made.

There is no creature so perfect in wisdom and knowledge but may learn something for time present, and to come, by times past.

In the history of battles and wars, the massacres of civilians were the main reason of revolutions success.

Who knows what’s for true once a time is past? There’s no way to prove how something was that’s gone. And if a time is gone, what does it matter? It’s all rain into rivers...

History is rich knowledge, In your travel, learn the brief history of the place visited. .

What is the cause of historical events? Power. What is power? Power is the sum total of wills transferred to one person. On what condition are the willso fo the masses transferred to one person?...

Listen, she said, “cherubim have come to my planet before.””I know that. Where do you think I got my information?””What do you know about us?””I have heard that your host planet is shadowed, that it...

Legend has it that while drinking wine in a boat on the river, [8th century Chinese poet Li Po] tried to grab the moon’s reflection on the surface and tumbled in, which is probably the...

At a time when history made its way slowly, the few events were easily remembered and woven into a backdrop, known to everyone, before which private life unfolded the gripping show of its adventures. Nowadays,...

Well, that’s history for you, folks. Unfair, untrue and for the most part written by folk who weren’t even there.

…Then a man turnedAnd said to me: “Although I love the past, the dark of it,The weight of it teaching us nothing, the loss of it, the allOf it asking for nothing, I will love...

Nostalgia is the intimate refuge of every man and every woman in a world seemingly gone mad.

To believe that what has not occurred in history will not occur at all, is to argue disbelief in the dignity of man.

On the journey towards the beloved, you live by dying at every step

And it may be that a crowd at a particular moment of history creates the object to justify its gathering, as it did at the first Human Be-In and Monterey Pop and Woodstock. Or it...

It follows that the one thing we should not do to the men and women of past time, and particularly if they ghost through to us as larger than life, is to take them out...

History isn’t what happened, history is just what historians tell us.

Grandmother’s knee is a wonderful place to learn about the Bible, ghosts, and even Santa Claus, but a mighty poor place to learn about history.

History’s got no bows on it, only frayed ends of ribbons and knots that can’t be untied.

While Leonidas was preparing to make his stand, a Persian envoy arrived. The envoy explained to Leonidas the futility of trying to resist the advance of the Great King’s army and demanded that the Greeks...

History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.

If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.

The two main criminals are France and the United States. They owe Haiti enormous reparations because of actions going back hundreds of years. If we could ever get to the stage where somebody could say,...

They urge us to study our history that we might learn from past tragedies and errors. But sometimes I think it’s actually a good thing that humanity so easily forgets. The haze that eventually claims...

There are people who look forward to spending their sunset years in the sunshine; it is my own retirement dream to await my death indoors, dragging strangers up dusty staircases while coughing up one of...

Magic begins in superstition, and ends in science. … At every step the history of civilization teaches us how slight and superficial a structure civilization is, and how precariously it is poised upon the apex...

When history looks back, I want people to know that the Nazis could not kill millions of people with impunity.

It’s bad enough . . . when a country gets colonized, but when the people do as well! That’s the end, really, that’s the end.

But that’s what family is, isn’t it? It’s traditions and trinkets that only matter when we hold them up against the mirrors of our lives, lending them meaning, lending them weight, until they become heavy...

The longer you look back, the farther you can look forward.

Many comparisons have been made with the markets of the 1950s and 1960s. If you go back in history you climb a wall of worry. The price action we are seeing today is actually normal...

The only historian capable of fanning the spark of hope in the past is the one who is firmly convinced that even the dead will not be safe from the enemy if he is victorious.

We must remember that one determined person can make a significant difference, and that a small group of determined people can change the course of history.

Kami harus mencari semua bagian yang terang. Apabila tidak ada, maka yang gelap itu agak digosok. Itulah seninya agar dapat hidup dengan gembira, bukan?

History had its fascinations, but could be burdensome.

And I thought:History is like a horror story.

History is often the tale of small moments—chance encounters or casual decisions or sheer coincidence—that seem of little consequence at the time, but somehow fuse with other small moments to produce something momentous, the proverbial...

The wanderer in Manhattan must go forth with a certain innocence, because New York is best seen with innocent eyes. It doesn’t matter if you are younger or old. Reading our rich history makes the...

Well-lit streets discourage sin, but don’t overdo it.

Augustine recast how people should view history, that history was not the story of the rise and fall of empires because those are human things. Those are the city of man. Rather, true history should...

What history? What tradition? Losing four Super Bowls? Not selling out at (former home stadium) Met Stadium?

With theology as a code of dogmas which are to be believed, or at any rate repeated, under penalty of present or future punishment, or as a storehouse of anaesthetics for those who find the...

Looking at my life through the lens of history has made me increasingly grateful to standout women who pushed those boundaries to make the changes from which I have benefited.

Experience: the vehicle of history. Teenagers: the driving force behind fatal accidents.

The 1950s is a key decade in the 20th Century. Each year has a distinctive flavour.

Priorities” There’s No Such Thing as “Busy

…I believe that nothing that once was can be completely undone. Even if destroyed in the material world and forgotten by men, it remains and will remain alive in the memory of an infinite being...