If the only significant history of human thought were to be written, it would have to be the history of its successive regrets and its impotences.
Albert CamusTags: history human-thought impotence
As all historians know, the past is a great darkness, and filled with echoes. Voices may reach us from it; but what they say to us is imbued with the obscurity of the matrix out of which they come; and try as we may, we cannot always decipher them precisely in the clearer light of our day.
Margaret AtwoodTags: history
We'll be remembered more for what we destroy than what we create.
Chuck PalahniukTags: history
If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.
Rudyard KiplingTags: history storytelling
There are only patterns, patterns on top of patterns, patterns that affect other patterns. Patterns hidden by patterns. Patterns within patterns.
If you watch close, history does nothing but repeat itself.
What we call chaos is just patterns we haven't recognized. What we call random is just patterns we can't decipher. what we can't understand we call nonsense. What we can't read we call gibberish.
There is no free will.
There are no variables.
Tags: history history-repeating-itself chaos patterns
Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labours of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge.
Marcus Tullius CiceroHistory is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
Napoléon BonaparteHistory is no more fixed and dead than the future. The past is no further away than the last breath you took.
Robin HobbTags: history
To me, history ought to be a source of pleasure. It isn't just part of our civic responsibility. To me, it's an enlargement of the experience of being alive, just the way literature or art or music is."
[The Title Always Comes Last; NEH 2003 Jefferson Lecturer interview profile]
Tags: life civic-duty civic-responsibility history humanity mankind responsibility
Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He has forgotten to add: the first time as tragedy, the second as farce.
Karl MarxTags: history facts farce georg-wilhelm-friedrich-hegel hegel history-repeats-itself
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