The history of science is the saga of nature defying common sense.
Kedar JoshiTags: science history nature common-sense
Never lend if you need repayment; never give where you want a return.
Lindsey DavisTags: inspirational history
The imagination is the goal of history. I see culture as an effort to literally realize our collective dreams.
Terence McKennaTags: imagination history dreams culture collective
Human history is a Gaian dream.
Terence McKennaTags: history human dream gaia
By its very nature, history is always a one-sided account.
Dan BrownTags: history rewriting-history
...the holy men sat in an atmosphere
reeking of antiquity, so thick with the
dust of ages that you can't see through it
--nor can they.
It was considered at the time a striking proof of virtue in the young king that he was sorry for his father's death;but, as common subjects have that virtue too, sometimes, we will say no more about it.
Charles DickensHistory, as it was purveyed to us, was not so much a narrative, not even the detached observation of the rise and fall of fortunes and cultures. It was the litany of loss, attended by the inevitable sympathy for the vanquished side. The past was always the underdog, and we sensed it was only right to be on its side against the bully future. We were left with the impression that our own grip was loosening on some essential pediment as one empire after another was swallowed up, and the centuries collapsed into our own.
Patricia HamplTags: history
For the survivor who chooses to testify, it is clear: his duty is to bear witness for the dead and for the living. He has no right to deprive future generations of a past that belongs to our collective memory. To forget would be not only dangerous but offensive; to forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.
Elie WieselTags: books history philosophy
We are all, Esme decides, just vessels through which identities pass: we are lent features, gestures, habits, then we hand them on. Nothing is our own. We begin in the world as anagrams of our antecedents.
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