Quotes About History

you come to understand that history might be, as Thomas Carlyle put it, "a distillation of rumor," or, as Napoleon said, "a set of lies generally agreed upon

Mortmain is an old French word that should be tattooed on the inside of any historical novelist's skull. This wonderful and terrible word means "dead hand." Its definition is: "The influence of the past regarded as controlling the present." (It is also used as a legal term with the same basic meaning.

James Alexander Thom

Very different thought styles are used for one and the same problem more often than are very closely related ones. It happens more frequently that a physician simultaneously pursues studies of a disease from a clinical-medical or bacteriological viewpoint together with that of the history of civilization, than from a clinical-medical or bacteriological one together with a purely chemical one.

The current state of knowledge remains vague when history is not considered, just as history remains vague without substantive knowledge about the current state.

History cannot be logically constructed any more than a scientific event, if only because it involves the process of vague and indefinable concepts which are about to crystallize. The more detailed and differentiated the description for any field of thought, the more complex, interrelated, and mutually dependent in definition will be its concepts. They become a tangle impossible to unravel logically, an organic structure produced by mutual development and with interacting components.

1. Per educare occorre proporre adeguatamente il passato.

2. Seconda urgenza: il passato può essere proposto ai giovani solo se è presentato dentro un vissuto presente

Comunque, la cosa più impressionante del cristianesimo la nota Newman. Lui dice che solo il cristianesimo, in tutta la storia dell'umanità, ha come contenuto del suo messaggio – dal punto di vista antropologico, cioè dal punto di vista dell'uomo – l'annuncio di un cambiamento radicale della personalità. Un cambiamento non morale, ma un cambiamento radicale della personalità.

The history of mankind is the history of ideas.

Doesn't every town in America have an old-timer called The Professor? That duffer who knows everything and everybody, as long as they are dead.

Carnal, rocks remember when they were mountains.' They stared at the rocks in the garden. 'And what do mountains remember?' 'When they were ocean floors.' Big Angel, Zen master.

Museums suck," said Billy. The bus rattled along between tan fields. "Right?" said Charlie. "History," said Higgins. "Shit like that.

Every Mexican was a diluted Indian, invaded by milk like the coffee in Cayetana's cup.

Minnie said, "Better not to ask." "That's our family in a nutshell." "You got that right.

El tráfico de drogas en México nació subordinado a la política desde los tiempos de la Revolución, se reforzó en el Estado posrevolucionario dominado por el partido de Estado (PNR-PRM-PRI) y así continuó durante siete décadas.

Religion and Myth. It is impossible to understand Art and the glory of its history without avowing religious spirituality and the mythical roots that lead us to the very reason of being of the artistic phenomenon. Without the one or the other there would be no Egyptian pyramids, nor those of ancient Mexico. Would the Greek temples and Gothic cathedrals have existed? Would the amazing marvels of the Renaissance and the Baroque have come about?

In the annals of Parisian cultural history, the episode is still known as "the scandal of L'Age d'or.") A week later, Police Chief Chiappe closed the theatre; the film was censored, and remained so for fifty years.

Uno de los grandes problemas de México es un nacionalismo llevado hasta el extremo que delata un profundo complejo de inferioridad.

A life without memory is no life at all

A gente vive para a frente, mas compreende para trás, ninguém na época disse "Oba, começou a Renascença!

Uncertainty and fear and ignorance about immigrants, about people who are different, has a history as old as our Nation.

A contingent of U.S. Marines prepared to depart as the Stars and Stripes was lowered, permanently drawing the curtains on U.S. occupation of the base that began in 1899. As President Ramos remarked, "There has been no day that foreign troops were not based on our soil," with foreign military presence finally ending after more than four hundred years.

cada cual es un poco la historia de las habitaciones que lo han cobijado y de los ruidos que se ha acostumbrado a escuchar.