There once was a time when all people believed in God and the church ruled. This time was called the Dark Ages.

But anyone who is practically acquainted with scientific work is aware that those who refuse to go beyond fact, rarely get as far as fact; and anyone who has studied the history of science knows...

And in the absence of facts, myth rushes in, the kudzu of history.

Modern history, both early and late, was made by Europeans, who “built a world around Europe”, as historians “know”, according to Braudel. That is indeed the “knowledge” of the European historians who themselves “invented” history...

History at its best is a gritty, dirty business.

The only principle of Success in Life :”You must be present to win.

One night when the moon was full, I explained to you about how the moon controls the tides, and you said I was like the moon and you were the sea, always following me about....

People who are left out of these shows feel that they are left out of the writing of history and that it’s determined by the luck of the draw.

It’s quite certain there are places to which the whole past is as though attached, on which are traced in secret letters for people who are centuries removed from us their thoughts, their will…

The colonialist’s existence is so closely aligned with that of the colonized that he will never be able to overcome the argument which states that misfortune is good for something. With all his power he...

…history, as you may know, is much like a spiral staircase that gives the illusion of going up, but never quite goes anywhere.

History knows no scruples and no hesitation. Inert and unnering flows towards her goal. History knows herway. She makes no mistakes.

And in the act of making things, just by living their daily lives, they also make history. Knitting is clothing made in spare moments, or round the fire, whenever women gathered together… It’s something to...

There were three things sought by invaders who crossed oceans to discover America. Those were gold, gospel, glory. There are four things sought by aliens who crossed heavens to discover planet earth. Those are gold,...

In this martial world dominated by men, women had little place. The Church’s teachings might underpin feudal morality, yet when it came to the practicalities of life, a ruthless pragmatism often came into play. Kings...

She supposed they were imperfections, those marks, but they didn’t feel that way to her; they were a history, cut into his body: the map of a life of endless war.

Truly, Buffon was the father of all thought in natural history in the second half of the 18th century.

Caesar was a serial seducer of married women.

There is no quarrel between science and spirituality. I often hear people of science trying to use it to prove the nonexistence of the spiritual, but I simply can’t see a chasm in between the...

Sarah turned around and there standing just a few feet from her was the legend himself, and he was far from disappointing.

Learning the truth has become my life’s love.

[O]ne has to have endured a few decades before wanting, let alone needing, to embark on the project of recovering lost life. And I think it may be possible to review ‘the chronicles of wasted...

many national leaders including Washington, Franklin, Jefferson, Madison, Hamilton, John Adams, John Jay, Gouverneur Morris, and Rufus King saw American slavery as an immense problem, a curse, a blight, or a national disease. If the...

Our second handicap was an election manifesto which Gerald Kaufman rightly described as `the longest suicide note in history’.

Acha alama katika dunia baada ya kuondoka.

In a city it’s impossible to forget we live in places raised and built over time itself. The past is underneath our feet. Every day when I leave the house , I may walk over...

Read the stories of the past to write your story for the future.

He knows different now. It’s the living that chase the dead. The long bones and skulls are tumbled from their shrouds, and words like stones thrust into their rattling mouths: we edit their writings, we...

Manuscript editions didn’t immediately die out with the printing explosion that burst across Europe in the 1460s and 1470s. Manuscripts continued to be produced into the 16th century, many decades after presses had spread to...

Our ability to look back on the past, our need or desire to make sense of it, is both a blessing and a curse; and our inability to see into the future with any degree...

fault.” But it is undeniably our inheritance.

Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtile; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.

I grew up in Europe, where the history comes from.

Perbedaan warna kulit yang anda anut membangkitkan perasaan jijik orang Asia! Sampai-sampai ke dalam film anda memperlihatkan kerendahan dari bansa kulit berwarna!

Dari dua putraku dan tiga putriku dari Fatmawati, semuanya, kecuali Guntur, tinggal di Istana Merdeka bersamaku. Guntur tidak sedekat sebagaimana seharusnya. Dia anak ibunya. Aku tidak dapat menyalahkan dia. Karena aku juga begitu. Dia kuliah...

Kita tidak akan menjadi negara untuk satu orang atau satu golongan tetapi semua buat satu, satu buat semua, semua buat satu.

Sudah merupakan suratan nasib Sukarno, untuk menyusun pergerakan yang membuat dia masuk penjara, lalu dibuang, tapi kemudian dia akan membebaskan kita semua. Sukarno bukan lagi milik orangtuanya. Karno sudah menjadi milik rakyat Indonesia. Kami harus...

Seseorang yang menjadi gurumu harus dihormati, bahkan lebih daripada orang tuamu sendiri.

Faithfulness to the truth of history involves far more than research, however patient and scrupulous, into special facts. The narrator must seek to imbue himself with the life and spirit of the time.

There are certain books in the history of the world that should never have been written. This book makes all those look like masterpieces.

…early medieval Ireland sounds like a somewhat crazed Wisconsin, in which every dairy farm is an armed camp at perpetual war with its neighbors, and every farmer claims he is a king.

History written in pencil is easily erased, but crayon is forever.

Write about what you know,” isn’t limited to what you have personally experienced. Vicarious experience is also a great part of what you know. Read a lot of history and it becomes part of your...

A little while, their hunger unfulfilled,The mothlike worlds flit ’round the guttering sun.(“Ephemera”)

There is no question that the Republicans mounted an attack on John Murtha. They are trying to rewrite history.

Before the battle they had been discussing whether there might be life after death, and Windham and Rochester had made a pact that if there was, the first to die would come back and tell...

The power of a bold idea uttered publicly in defiance of dominant opinion cannot be easily measured. Those special people who speak out in such a way as to shake up not only the self-assurance...

Tuhan ingin menyampaikan risalah kepada manusia. Untuk itu Tuhan mengirim Rasul-rasul dan Nabi Muhammad adalah salah satu dari Rasul-rasul itu. Risalah yang ingin disampaikan Tuhan ialah norma-norma akhlak dan syariat.

It was probably the greatest singular human endeavor, certainly in modern times, maybe in the history of all mankind.

What do we do if we come across trouble, sir?’ Cahill asked, slapping at a fly. ‘As much as I enjoy giving the rebel turds a walloping, it should be down to the Militia to...