History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are.
David McCulloughTags: inspiration history
The places and people in the following stories have been represented accurately to the best of my ability; yet my writing is supposed to be a tale, and as in any historical novel, my own imagination has blended with fact to create poetical reality.
Eric SloaneTags: history
Never say more than is necessary.
Richard Brinsley SheridanLet us study things that are no more. It is necessary to understand them, if only to avoid them.
Victor HugoWith the plundered people transferring their energies into relaxed and receptive thoughts, degradation and lust for power produced art.
Peter WeissTags: art history aesthetics
There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before.
Willa CatherHe who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThose who do not move, do not notice their chains.
Rosa LuxemburgTags: progress freedom history struggle liberation evolution
Our parents' generation carried the past memorialized in paint, porcelain, and wood; we cast it off. Even our national history is remembered in terms of the worst we did, not the best.
P.D. JamesTags: past history remembrance
Study the past if you would define the future.
ConfuciusTags: past future learning history strategy direction moving-forward
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