…most people in the ancient world, did not make a sharp distinction between myth and reality. The two were intimately tied together in their spiritual experience. That is to say, they were less interested in...

This gives Apple the biggest competitive advantage they’ve had in history from Microsoft.

Because the human history is the history of shoes. The history of places where we ever tread and stand.

…we’re wedged tight into the accident of our moment in history.

His legend will be written down, eventually, by those who are troubled by it.

Woodrow Wilson claimed that history endows us with the “invaluable mental power we call judgment.

He did not care about titles and was proud to be a farmer beyond all else.

She had an emptiness in her eyes like a ghost tired of haunting.

Never say more than is necessary.

I linger near Galileo’s telescopes, then round the corner and stand transfixed: I did not expect this- a dark, cool room full of globes of the night sky from the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries....

A man who could not see the end of his”provisional existence” was not able to aim at an ultimate goal in life.

He is home now. He is free. History will record his worth as a leader. We here have long since measured his worth as a man — honest, compassionate, graceful, brave. He was the most...

Every civilization sees itself as the center of the world and writes its history as the central drama of human history.

Today is a new day. Don’t let your history interfere with your destiny! Let today be the day you stop being a victim of your circumstances and start taking action towards the life you want....

History is the diary of humankind; to forget it is to try to navigate the future with no memory of the past.

To be the child of a conficted or reputed witch was inherently dangerous; in one pathetic case in Lorraine a young couple were both accused, and it emerged that they had decided to marry after...

Battles against Rome have been lost and won before, but hope was never abandoned, since we were always here in reserve. We, the choicest flower of Britain’s manhood, were hidden away in her most secret...

I once expected to spend seven years walking around the world on foot. I walked from Mexico to Panama where the road ended before an almost uninhabited swamp called the Choco Colombiano. Even today there...

Even today, some opt for the comforts of mystification, preferring to believe that the wonders of the ancient world were built by Atlanteans, gods, or space travelers, instead of by thousands toiling in the sun....

I’m not a historian, and I wouldn’t want to be. I want to change the world. Attack the elite. Overturn the hierarchy. Look at my stories and you’ll notice that the villains are always, always,...

This is what I feared would come; this is what I have dreaded. It is not very bright and honorable as you have always thought it; it is not like a ballad. It is a...

I did not know that history is like a blood stain that keeps on showing on the wall no matter how many new owners take possession, no matter how many times we pint over it.

If I had known they were going to do this, I would have become a shoemaker.

History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.

Life is too short to be anything but happy. So kiss slowly. Love deeply. Forgive quickly. Take chances and never have regrets. Forget the past but remember what it taught you.

Somehow the past is a safe place to explore our collective cultural neuroses.

We are a day away from making history, and a history towards the breaking of tommorrow.

Science uses the Red Shift to measure deep cosmic distances. But how to measure deep historic time? How about—the Saffron Shift.If history itself had a color, it is . . . like wood or bark,...

Considerable thought was given in early Congresses to the possibility of renaming the country. From the start, many people recognized that United States of America was unsatisfactory. For one thing, it allowed of no convenient...

We know we’re not a title-contending team right now, but in the history of teams winning titles they tend to take their lumps for a little while before they finally get there.

History isn’t written by the winners – it’s written by everyone – it’s a jigsaw of facts from contradictory sources. But every once in a while, you unearth that one original document that no one...

But some memories are more important than others,’ she says. ‘Because some memories belong to more than just one other person…Some memories tell us about who we are. They need to be kept safe so...

One day an intrepid sole will climb this mountain on its east side, reaching the summit and the passage that exist between the main peak and secondary peaks, by which he can descend to the...

Not that anybody cares two pins about history in these days.We’ve got rid of history; history is all my eye. But I’ve got to tell you the facts.

In other words, Hitler’s soul life was not mature enough at that moment to maintain an awareness of himself and his surroundings when this alien entity entered him. During the following six months during a...

Isso é mais uma coisa que aprendi com o tempo, sabe? O bem e o mal não existem! Quer dizer, existir até que existem, mas apenas no contexto de uma pergunta importante: bem ou mal...

Could our mythological heroes be based on actual people who once lived?

Sing, boy! sing! The ages are waiting for you. Sing! sing! All the world will hear you. God knows what will come of it.

One practice and the rest is history.

knowledge” of angels, and he devoted far more of his massive Summa Theologica to them than to physics.

Great charismatic leaders don’t just say what voters want to hear; they say what voters want to say.

It can certainly be misleading to take the attributes of a movement, or the anxieties and contradictions of a moment, and to personalize or ‘objectify’ them in the figure of one individual. Yet ordinary discourse...

GM has a long history of poor performance and all of sudden they start doing well. Everyone is forced to ask, ‘How much further is it going to go? Is this a flash in the...

The Indians, keeping to themselves, laughed at your superior methods and lived from the land more abundantly and with less labor than you did… And when your own people started deserting in order to live...

We think it’s a unique asset with an interesting history and with a stable income in a unique location.

Peter Aykroyd has a wonderful eye for the telling detail, cameos that stick in the mind. Thse are the little touches that make it past come alive.

It frustrates and fascinates me that we’ll never know for sure, that despite the best efforts of historians and scientists and poets, there are some things we’ll just never know. What the first song sounded...

But it is no use to justify yourself. It is no good to explain. It is weak to be anecdotal. It is wise to conceal the past even if there is nothing to conceal. A...

Not until the beginning of the 20th century did Europe’s urban populations finally become self-sustaining: before then, constant immigration of healthy peasants from the countryside was necessary to make up for the constant deaths of...

The man who had asked my name in Obersalzberg in the summer of 1934 had been a dominant personality excluding a spellbinding charisma to which few were not prey. The embodied sovereign power, total power....