Filled with existential ennui about your place in the universe? Get over yourself. Yes, you’re an inconsequential worm in the grand scope of history. But you’re an inconsequential worm who makes shit up for a...

The dead are the past and we cannot escape the past. Without the past there will be no future.

This history of culture will explain to us the motives, the conditions of life, and the thought of the writer or reformer.

Nobody should ever try to second-guess history; the facts are fantastic enough.

Dates are convenient hooks on which we can hang our memories of events. But history is all about people – people like you and me who did things to change the world.

The past is a reality that exists just beyond our reach.

To write good history is the noblest work of man.

Any experience deeply felt makes some men better and some men worse. When it has ended, they share nothing but the recollection of a commitment in which each was tested and to some degree found...

Her voice was caught in the shell of my ear, as if it were the ocean.

If we are to make progress, we must not repeat history but make new history. We must add to inheritance left by our ancestors.

He led her back to the house, the perfume from the acacia clinging to her. The djinn was supposed to live in the scent of the acacia blossom, making themselves visible only to the young...

Sometimes I feel like we’re a knot, too tangled to be taken apart.

We’re really looking forward to it, getting together with the people we play for. All the history these people bring, it goes beyond the 22 guys selected to play on the field.

If a memory wasn’t a thing but a memory of a memory of a memory, mirrors set in parallel, then what the brain told you now about what it claimed had happened then would be...

What was, was. The past defines itself. Historians refuse to accept that definition & instead superimpose their analysis of the past through the eyes of the present. Thus, history becomes a pale reflection of the...

You know the saying: he who doesn’t understand history is doomed to repeat it. And when it’s repeated, the stakes are doubled.

One time Bonaventure heard the graphite of a pencil rasp across a piece of paper and leave a slight and quivered mark behind. He listened so hard he heard the graphite’s history, when it was...

‎Without a knowledge of where words come from, things disappear, history is lost.

If our history with Saddam has taught us anything, it has taught us that the only thing that he responds to is the use of force.

Look, part of the whole technique of disempowering people is to make sure that the real agents of change fall out of history, and are never recognized in the culture for what they are. So...

In these days before antiseptics, doctors themselves also suffered high mortality rates. Florence Nightingale, a nurse during the Crimean War (1853-1856), watched one particularly inept surgeon cut both himself and, somehow, a bystander while blundering...

I have never heard amaranth being seized, … It’s never been used as a narcotic. It has no history being under government scrutiny.

If anybody tries to penetrate the past with the knife of the present will always act in vain. The past is invulnerable. Such attempts can only cause the present or the future to bleed.” –...

Yet, thousands of africans and young african youths have failed to acknowledge the significant of what madiba gave them. To me, he be called ” the pride in black skin and the freedom we are...

The bloody times, the horror, will just be history to them, words on a page, so how will they dare to judge? Very easily, I should imagine.

She mourned the history that the invisible intruder had erased, but not enough that she would spend a second more of her future feeling the emptiness.

Nothing is final in history. It always moves on. Peace must be built again and again.

The history of all the great characters of the Bible is summed up in this one sentence: They acquainted themselves with God, and acquiesced His will in all things.

What matters for the dialectician is having the wind of world history in his sails. Thinking for him means: to set the sails. It is the way they are set that matters. Words are his...

History is going to judge us on that one,

Dunia ini masih senantiasa teramat sopan. Tidak mau melihat kenyataan yang telanjang bulat. Memalingkan muka dengan penuh rasa jijik dari kenyataan, perempuan telanjang itu.

I tell you, because military training is not publicly recognised by the state, you must not make that an excuse for being a whit less careful in attending to it yourself. For you may rest...

Some Japanese politicians stick to their wrong view of history and try to justify their country’s past military misdeeds. Those Japanese politicians should stop their fallacies, give up their wrong views, and return to the...

The present is an age of talkers, and not doers; and the reason is, that the world is growing old. We are so far advanced in the Arts and Sciences, that we live in retrospect,...

A half-century later, Mark Twain would say that the gold rush drastically changed the American character, ending the tradition of patient apprenticeships, the gradual mastery of self, talent, and money. Gold created the get-rich-quick mentality...

Throughout history, the leaders of countries have been very particular of what songs should be sung. We know the power of songs.

There is time, and there is what is beyond time. History belongs to time, but truth belongs to what is beyond time.

If we can understand the origin of the sharp outer edge around HD 139664, we might better understand the history of our solar system.

The ascendancy over men’s minds of the ruins of the stupendous past, the past of history, legend and myth, at once factual and fantastic, stretching back and back into ages that can but be surmised,...

We may be of the same family, but that is the very reason why we are not friends, for we are rivals for the throne. What quarrels are worse than family quarrels?

The Revolution introduced me to art, and in turn, art introduced me to the Revolution!

I have a very strong sense that we only know where we are by looking clearly at where we’ve come from.

Nobody is a loser: Either he is a winner or a learner.

No more light answers. Let our officersHave note what we purpose. I shall breakThe cause of our expedience to the QueenAnd get her leave to part. For not aloneThe death of Fulvia, with more urgent...

Militarism has been by far the commonest cause of the breakdown of civilizations. The single art of war makes progress at the expense of all the arts of peace.

In olden days people were worse than us but knew much more than us.

CROSS, n. An ancient religious symbol erroneously supposed to owe its significance to the most solemn event in the history of Christianity, but really antedating it by thousands of years. By many it has been...

Imagine a society entirely absorbed in its own historicity. It would be incapable of producing historians. Living entirely under the sign of the future, it would satisfy itself with automatic self-recording processes and auto-inventory machines,...

History has taught us that often lies serve her better than the truth, for man is sluggish and has to be led through the desert for forty years before each step in his development. And...

Some historians hold that history is just one damned thing after another.