We are now edging across the boundary – always a porous one – between self-justification and fantasy. Matthews’ story is by no means a complete fantasy: we can recognise every event. But the frame of...

We tried to make the prosaic attractive without using the tired clichés of false glamour. You might say we tried to convey the attractiveness of reality, as opposed to the glitter of a never-never land.—Cipe...

Religion, with its metaphysical error of absolute guilt, dominated the broadest, the cosmic realm. From there, it infiltrated the subordinate realms of biological, social and moral existence with its errors of the absolute and inherited...

The ages live in history through their anachronisms.

Historians are not scientists. They cannot (and should not even trying to) establish universal laws of social or political “physics” with reliable predictive powers. Why? Because there is no possibility of repeating the single, multi-millennium...

A bad leader wouldn’t stress the importance of staying together to stop the enemy. You want peace? You can’t forgive the enemy, if you can’t forgive your men for losing faith. You can’t force every...

The truth is usually left for us to hunt and gather independently, if we are so inclined.

Historians are left forever chasing shadows, painfully aware of their inability ever to reconstruct a dead world in its completeness however thorough or revealing their documentation. We are doomed to be forever hailing someone who...

If you could not accept the past and its burden there was no future, for without one there cannot be the other.

What was the point of living through history if you didn’t record it?

What if I can’t turn my head? I can look in any direction by turning my wheelchair, and I choose to look back. Rodman to the contrary notwithstanding, that is the only direction we can...

We shall go on to the end, we shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend...

That’s past history, … He had the surgery. It’s over with. All we can hope for now is a speedy recovery and just go forward.

It has been said that although God cannot alter the past, historians can –it is perhaps because they can be useful to Him in this respect that He tolerates their existence.

Quei due mondi erano specchi deformanti: si riflettevano a vicenda e gettavano luci e ombre l’uno sull’altro, come se s’interrogassero e ponessero in dubbio reciprocamente. L’illusione era così perfetta che dovevo ripetermi in continuazione che...

I have no expectation that any man will read history aright who thinks that what was done in a remote age, by men whose names have resounded far, has any deeper sense than what he...

For an instant he thought he grasped the truth of a terrifying world in which one could not escape horror, in which violence was eternal, the great and only verity, greater than the civilisations it...

History is the nothing people write about a nothing.

To understand how that astounding moral blindness was possible, it is helpful to think of the workers of an armament plant who rejoice in the ‘stay of execution’ of their factory thanks to big new...

History is a burden. Stories can make us fly.

That was probably the biggest win in the history of the franchise.

Like a lot of stupid people, it took a great deal to get an idea into the king’s head, but once there, there was no shifting it.

Film photography will always be superior to digital – because no matter how many lasers and instant buttons and HD pixels you’ve got, a human being can take a photograph with much more integrity and...

Before the man lost his sight, he read this story in a magazine: a group of explorers came upon a community of parrots speaking the language of a society that had been wiped out in...

Mother, before God,” I say, my voice shaking with tears, “I swear that I have to believe that there is more for me in life than being wife to one man after another, and hoping...

Whether you need to remember the past or not, It changes nothing but gives the best choice for the future that makes You always to remember your past.

I’ve always had a keen sense of history. My father was an antiques dealer and he used to bring home boxes full of treasures, and each item always had a tale attached.

The only enemy which stands between the talent you posses and success you achieve is known as “EGO” in our Society

A too often forgotten truth is that you can live through actual events of history and completely miss the underlying reality of what’s going. What history misses, the myth clearly expresses. The myth in the...

Life doesn’t walk away, we do.

Think of any great man or woman. How can you separate them from the years in which they lived? You can’t. Their greatness lies in their response to that moment.

I think it’s going to go down as an important point in our history. And I know they’re (BEGIN BRACKET) Toyota (END BRACKET) looking at it from a long-term view.

Americans may say they love our accents (I have been accused of sounding ‘like Princess Di’) but the more thoughtful ones resent and rather dislike us as a nation and people, as friends of mine...

Without realizing that the past is constantly determining their present actions, they avoid learning anything about their history. They continue to live in their repressed childhood situation, ignoring the fact that is no longer exists,...

Things just happen, one after another. They don’t care who knows. But history… ah, history is different. History has to be observed. Otherwise it’s not history. It’s just… well, things happening one after another.

History is made by people. And the majority of people are arseholes. Which is I suppose why the majority of history has been so disastrous.

Believing, as they now did, that the heavenly powers took part in human affairs, they became so much absorbed in the cultivation of religion and so deeply imbued with the sense of their religious duties,...

All of the great mastermind thinkers throughout history have known that we become our thoughts.

I just don’t see why the past has to matter.

They say it is a wide road that leads to war and only a narrow path that leads home again.

In the distant future I see open fields for far more important researches. Psychology will be based on a new foundation, that of the necessary acquirement of each mental power and capacity by gradation. Light...

Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors. The library connects us with the insight and knowledge, painfully extracted from Nature, of the greatest minds that ever were, with...

Today’s controversy is tomorrow’s sea change.

Today everybody admits that something is wrong with the world, and the critics of Christianity are the very people who feel this most. The most violent attacks on religion come from those who are most...

Go up along the eastern side of Lake Michigan, steer northeast when the land bends away at Point Betsie, and you come before long to Sleeping Bear Point–an incredible flat-topped sand dune rising five hundred...

typical” white Southerner was not a slaveholding planter but a small farmer who tried, often without success, to achieve both relative self-sufficiency and a steady income from marketable cash crops.

On the board, Mr. Beery had written “Those who don’t remember history are doomed to repeat it.” I wasn’t sure if this was meant to be inspirational, thematic, or a joke about making sure to...

Ukitaka kumjua mwanamke jua historia yake.

Successful con men are treated with considerable respect in the South. A good slice of the settler population of that region were men who’d been given a choice between being shipped off to the New...

There is no shame in not knowing your history, the shame lies in not finding out.