Quotes About History

Mathematics is as much an aspect of culture as it is a collection of algorithms.

History is full of examples of men with deep-seated grievances who embraced good causes, in part at least, to settle old scores.

History," Burckhardt once observed, "is what one age finds worthy of note in another.

The basic issues reduce really to two alternatives: either man himself projects upon the world and its history a supernatural reality and activity that disallows objectively valid cognitive statements on the basis of divine disclosure, or a transcendent divine reality through intelligible revelation establishes the fact that God is actually at work in the sphere of nature and human affairs.

In the last analysis, the essential thing is the life of individual. This alone makes history, here alone do the great transformations take place, and the whole future, the whole history of the world, ultimately springs as a gigantic summation from these hidden source in individuals.

Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?

Naturally, every age thinks that all ages before it were prejudiced, and today we think this more than ever and are just as wrong as all previous ages that thought so. How often have we not seen the truth condemned! It is sad but unfortunately true that man learns nothing from history.

In order to compensate for its chaotic formlessness, a mass always produces a "Leader," who almost infallibly becomes the victim of his own inflated ego-consciousness, as numerous examples in history show.

autograph for a fan, he mused, "You know, I was reading the Gettysburg Address the other day, and that guy was really onto something.

The whole damn thing started when they gave women the vote.

Myths rule the world.

The man-dog contract goes back to before the invention of writing, before the invention of the wheel, even before the invention of agriculture. In that sense, living with dogs may be one of the oldest surviving cultural landmarks of our heritage, a surviving fragment of the Stone Age.

For everyone in this occupation, the skyline of New York is a family tree.

Jessica DuLong's elegantly written "My River Chronicles" brings the past of the Hudson River into the vivid present, and carries forward the craft of literary non-fiction with grace and energy.

Whoever said that the past isn't dead had it backward. It's the future that's already dead, already played out.

If these walls could talk, I wonder what secrets they'd tell.

In that twisted incestuous way of fate, Mia's a part of our history, and we're among the shards of her legacy.

I guess high school really is ancient history," she concludes. Ancient history? Have you really relegated us to the trash heap of the Dumb High-School Romance? And if that's the case, why the hell can't I do the same?

There are pictures of Kim and Mia from high school and one of the two of them posing on top of the Empire State Building—a jolting reminder that their relationship wasn't truncated, they have a history of which I know nothing.

I run my finger along the crease of the envelope, feel the weight of history inside. Wherever I'm going next, these are coming with me.

To a Scot, the past clings like sand to wet feet, and is carried about as a burden. The many ghosts are always a part of them, inescapable.

To a Scot, the past clings like sand to wet feet

Heaven, so to speak, has received time and history into itself, no less than time has received unchangeableness and eternity into itself.

And every philosophy of history bears in itself the seed of a theology.