Quotes About History

Ryan rolled his eyes. "Harper, you and David Stark have been circling each other since kindergarden.

I love hockey because of the respect for history and for the game itself.

I love traveling and seeing new things, learning the histories of different cultures. But I've always wanted to go to the Galapagos to see the giant turtles.

Love of learning led to monasteries, which became the cradle of academic guilds.

I love history... everything is inspired by history, so that's why I love vintage and antiques.

Ever since studying in Russia as a college student, I had been in a long-distance, one-sided love affair with Chechnya's remarkable history, culture and rugged natural beauty.

There is no point reminding you the memories you don't remember.

We can never skip growing old. As we grow older, we understand old things and things of old times better!

I have never thought that the man of Stratford-on-Avon wrote the plays of Shakespeare.

Words are fossilized butterfly wings, pretty to look at sometimes, but only good for Museums.I want to miserably burn down the Museums.

It proclaimed a new nation, the first in history established on the principle that every person is entitled to pursue his own values: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights; that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.

From the founding of the Republic to 1929, spending by governments at all levels, federal, state, and local, never exceeded 12 percent of the national income except in time of major war, and two-thirds of that was state and local spending. Federal spending typically amounted to 3 percent or less of the national income.

Auntie Oima told me that the reason our hair ornaments have pointed ends is so that we can use them to defend our customers from attack.

through reading, the modern man succeeds in obtaining an escape from time comparable to the emegence from time effected by myths. (...) Reading projects him out if his personal duration and incorporates him into other rythms, makes him live in another history.

Am urmele unui trecut care, nu numai c? e mort, ca orice trecut, dar care n-a transmis nimic epocilor care au venit dup? el. Trecut f?r? urma?i.

M? întreb chiar dac? istoria nu ne apare atât de absurd? tocmai din cauza acestei confisc?ri monstruoase în profitul unui singur fel de a vedea lumea, a unui singur comportament, care nu poate fi decât limitat ÅŸi, deci, fals...

Un om tr?ieÅŸte autentic... Un credincios nu are mai mult de dou?, trei experienÅ£e religioase în toat? viaÅ£a lui, ad?ugase. Restul e rutin?. Ca ÅŸi viaÅ£a noastr?: o serie nesfârÅŸit? de automatisme. Doar câteva ceasuri autentice la zece, cincisprezece ani. Åži când vrei s? ieÅŸi din rutin?, faci istorie...

Istoria e o voluptate foarte înÈ™el?toare È™i o disciplin? care nu-È™i salveaz? niciodat? pe cei mai riguroÈ™i adepÈ›i. Istoria nu ajut? s? supravieÈ›uiasc? decât pe acei care o fac, nu È™i pe cei care o cerceteaz? obiectiv. Cu cât eÈ™ti mai obiectiv, cu atât eÈ™ti mai trec?tor, mai muritor. Subiectivitatea, voinÈ›a personal?, elanul temperamental – numai acestea sunt p?strate în istorie.

Az álmokban, az álmodozásokban rejlÅ' nosztalgia, vágy, lelkesedés stb. képei olyan erÅ'k, amelyek a történelmileg meghatározott emberi lényt saját "történelmi pillanatába" zárt világánál százszorta gazdagabb szellemi világba röpítik át.

pentru societ??ile moderne -lumea- înseamn? tot mai puÈ›in Cosmos È™i tot mai mult? Istorie

De tot ce se intampla in lume sunt si eu vinovat. Pentru ca nu sunt un om intreg, nu sunt o unitate armonioasa, sunt un ins dezaxat, fara centru. Probabil ca mai sunt si altii, zeci de milioane, ca mine. Si cum pentru societatile moderne lumea inseamna tot mai putin Cosmos si tot mai multa Istorie, iti dai seama ce repercusiuni poate avea dezechilibrul acesta interior in afara de noi. Cum am putea fi creatori in Istorie noi, cateva zeci de milioane de dezechilibrati?

From the point of view of the history of religions, the Incarnation represents the last and most perfect hierophany ... To accept the possibility of the Absolute becoming incarnate in a historical person ... is to recognize that the countless pre-Christian generations were not victims of an illusion when they proclaimed the presence of the sacred, i.e., of the divine, in the objects and rhythms of the cosmos.

Time turns into pleroma by the very fact of the incarnation of the divine Word: but this fact itself transfigures history.

All culture is a "fall" into history...