It is one of the supreme ironies of history that the blessed birth of an only son should have proved the mortal blow. Even as the saluting cannons boomed and the flags waved, Fate had prepared a terrible story. Along with the lost battles and sunken ships, the bombs, the revolutionaries and their plots, the strikes and revolts, Imperial Russia was toppled by a tiny defect in the body of a little boy.
Robert K. MassieHistory is for human self-knowledge…the only clue to what man can do is what man has done. The value of history, then, is that it teaches us what man has done and thus what man is.
R.G. CollingwoodTags: history self-knowledge
I began with the desire to speak with the dead.
Stephen GreenblattTags: education knowledge shakespeare history historians desire
To celebrate the Fourth of July meant something definite in those days.
Carol Ryrie BrinkTags: past history fourth-of-july independence-day
The great wars of the present age are the effects of the study of history.
Friedrich NietzscheA female magician named Catherine Trianon, who lived together 'as man and wife' with another cunning-woman, was described as having more learning 'in the tip of her finger' than others acquired in a lifetime. When her house was searched in 1680 twenty-five manuscript volumes on the occult sciences were found.
Owen DaviesTags: history witch lesbian non-fiction magician affair-of-the-poisons grimoires
The truths embodied in historical stories are thus not absolute or universal, but relative to the cultural context in which they are made.
Richard HandlerImagine 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, postponing indefinitely the task of understanding itself
Pierre NoraTags: history memory prophecy social-networks
Nothing changes; we humans repeat the same sins over and over, eternally.
Isabel AllendeTags: history human-nature sins
We have flattered ourselves by inventing proverbs of comparison in matter of blindness,--"blind as a bat," for instance. It would be safe to say that there cannot be found in the animal kingdom a bat, or any other creature, so blind in its own range of circumstance and connection, as the greater majority of human beings are in the bosoms of their families. Tempers strain and recover, hearts break and heal, strength falters, fails, and comes near to giving way altogether, every day, without being noted by the closest lookers-on.
Helen Hunt JacksonTags: family history california blindness native-american american-indian female-authors love-story ramona female-author helen-hunt-jackson old-california
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