Quotes About History

Yet we allow our historical sympathy to override our aesthetic discrimination. We offer flowers of approbation when the artist is safely laid in his grave.

Why do men and women like to advertise themselves so much? Is it not but an instinct derived from the days of slavery?

Remember this: a story that must be told never forgives silence. Speech is the mouth's debt to a story.

We must achieve neither mere history, nor mere fiction, but myth. A true myth is one which, within the universe of a certain culture (living or dead), expresses richly, and often perhaps tragically, the highest admirations possible within that culture.

But to grasp my theme in its true proportions, it is necessary to do more than calculate. It is necessary to brood upon these magnitudes, to draw out the mind toward them, to feel the littleness of your here and now, and of the moment of civilization which you call history.

The story of your species is indeed a tragic story, for it closes with desolation. Your part in that story is both to strive and to fail in a unique opportunity, and so to set the current of history toward disaster. But think not therefore that your species has occurred in vain, or that your own individual lives are futile. Whatever any of you has achieved of good is an excellence in itself, and a bright thread woven into the texture of the cosmos.

Jasenovac concentration camp, which had been the largest "place of extermination" in fascist Croatia during the Second World War. "No one know exact number, but some say a million murdered there. They killing Jews and Gypsies, but most was Serbs.

Olga Lengyel

What makes us most human is the possession of a unique and irreproducible story, that we take place over time and leave behind our traces.

Perhaps one could get used to it? Learn to live with it, just as people live in the cities of Auschwitz or Hiroshima, without ever thinking about what happened there in the past. They simply live their lives.

Testosterone Autism: The person beset by this ailment....develops an interest in various tools and machinery, and he's drawn to the Second World War and the biographies of famous people, mainly politicians and villains.

To be foreign is to be free. To have a great expanse stretch out before you—the desert, the steppe. To have the shape of the moon behind you like a cradle, the deafening symphony of the cicadas, the air's fragrance of melon peel, the rustle of the scarab beetle when, come evening, the sky turns red, and it ventures out onto the sand to hunt. To have your own history, not for everyone, just your own history written in the tracks you leave behind.

I love everything that's old: old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wines.

immortality is that's the telling of stories in the remember.

About this time the tremendous invention of printing was achieved, and Columbus unwittingly discovered the New World. The

Copernicus lived from 1473 to 1543, and

Tycho Brahé from 1546 to 1601. Kepler from 1571 to 1630. Galileo from 1564 to 1642. Gilbert from 1540 to 1603. Francis Bacon from 1561 to 1626. Descartes from 1596 to 1650.

Ptolemaic system continued

there is a second lesson from Grübler's studies of past energy transitions to be confronted. They have, in the main, been driven not by the availability of new ways of providing energy, but by new ways of using it: transitions are pulled by demand, not pushed by supply.

Farmed in the way they were farmed at the beginning of the twentieth century, today's 1.5 billion hectares of cropland would feed about three billion people eating a diet typical of 1900 (which is to say, an insufficient one)

Americans, like people everywhere, are in thrall to their visions of the past, rarely realizing the extent to which their understanding of history shapes behavior in the here and now. Historical understanding defines people's very sense of what is thinkable and achievable. As a result, many have lost the ability to imagine a world that is substantially different from and better than what exists today.

Prominent among the American capitalists with ties to Nazi counterparts was Prescott Bush, the father of one president and grandfather of another.

Such power, so much death in one place at one time. Never to be forgotten.

Para la mayoría de norteamericanos la Segunda Guerra Mundial es, quizá por nostalgia, la «guerra buena» en que Estados Unidos y sus aliados triunfaron sobre el nazismo alemán, los fascismos y el militarismo japonés. El resto del mundo la recuerda, sin embargo, como el conflicto más sangriento de la historia de la humanidad.