Quotes About History

The Messianic era is the present age, which began to germinate with the teachings of Spinoza, and finally came into historical existence with the great French Revolution.

Every age thinks its battle the most important of all.

Politicians, old buildings, and prostitutes become respectable with age.

Creeds made in Dark Ages are like drawings made in dark rooms

Always the innocent are the first victims, so it has been for ages past, so it is now.

The public history of all countries, and all ages, is but a sort of mask, richly colored. The interior working of the machinery must be foul.

We Jews have a special attachment to the Book. The study of page after page in tomes yellowing with age was obligatory.

The fact of the matter is fame predates even the age of cinema.

All the great ages have been ages of belief.

But the good deed, through the ages Living in historic pages, Brighter grows and gleams immortal, Unconsumed by moth or rust.

There is less leisure now than in the Middle Ages, when one third of the year consisted of holidays and festivals.

It frightens me to realize that, if I had died before the age of fifty, I would have died a 'Negro' fraction.

Various Turkish people invaded southwest Asia during the Middle Ages and carved an empire for themselves from lands occupied by the indigenous Semitic and Indo-European inhabitants.

How many ages hence Shall this our lofty scene be acted over In states unborn and accents yet unknown!

[T]hroughout the ages to be educated meant to be unproductive.... our word "school" - and its equivalent in all European languages - derives from a Greek word meaning "leisure.

The moral and religious teachings of no bible reach a higher altitude than the intelligence and mental development of the age and country which produced it.

Now, we live in an age where we have so much information that we do tend to overload. The Greeks did too, though.

In the case of the Indian villager, an age-old culture is hidden under entrustment of crudeness.

Mankind became hysterical in the Middle Ages because it poorly repressed the sexual impressions of its Greek boyhood.

Trial by jury is part of that bright constellation which has gone before us and guided our steps through an age of revolution and reformation.

Throughout history there have been many other examples, similar to that of Haeckel, Huxley and the cell, where a key piece of a particular scientific puzzle was beyond the understanding of the age.

If things continue like this, the history of our age may one day be written under a caliphate's supervision .

Ordinary language embodies the metaphysics of the Stone Age.

Heroic ages are not and never were sentimental and those daring conquistadores who conquered entire worlds for their Spain or Portugal received lamentably little thanks from their kings.