Quotes About History

I am not averse to generalizing the notion of "modern" to designate a certain way of life, rather than making it purely a synonym of 'contemporary'. There are moments and places in history to which 'we moderns' could return without too greatly disturbing the harmony of those times, without seeming objects infinitely curious and conspicuous... creatures shocking, dissonant, and unassailable.

History is the most dangerous product evolved from the chemistry of the intellect.

All classicism presupposes a romanticism that went before.

Not knowing how to rid ourselves of our history, we shall be relieved of it by those happy peoples who have none, or next to none. And those happy peoples will impose their happiness on us.

History is the science of what never happens twice.

je suis l'empire à la fin de la décadence.

l'histoire est connaissance mutilée. Un historien ne dit pas ce qu'a été..., mais ce qu'il est encore possible d'en savoir.

La connaissance historique est taillée sur le patron de documents mutilés.

C'était un vrai latiniste, puisqu'il était aussi helléniste et que la culture romaine est un rejeton de la culture grecque, cette culture « mondiale » du temps.

Prague is far more than the sum of its physical parts or its history. It is a city of the mind and the imagination, a city that exists as vividly in poetry and painting and music and legend as it does in brick and stone... Just as the physical city of Prague would be unimaginable without its unique topography, without its palaces, its churches, its parks, its streets, and its hostelries, so the Prague of the mind would be unimaginable without its storytellers and the tales they weave.

That sense of what happened in Europe in World War II has shaped a lot of my views.

Someone once said that history has more imagination than all the scenario writers in the Pentagon, and we have a lot of scenario writers here. No one ever wrote a scenario for commercial airliners crashing into the World Trade Center.

Constant learning is the dream of the wise; stupidity however is the history of mankind. I am sure that one day the younger generation will be ready to read books again and will wonder why they didn't enjoy them before.

For me the mark of a great History teacher is the ability to take students to places outside the classroom while staying in the classroom.

What's important for me when I teach is to communicate 'to cook up' the visions, smells, tastes and sounds of the time with my young audience. Hopefully, I am imparting 'feeding them' what's important about that period of History. I want my students to taste a respect for the information 'the food' and to know about the cooks, the restaurants, and how the ingredients of time comes together to form a real banquet of History.

The farther we've gotten from the magic and mystery of our past, the more we've come to need Halloween. October Dreams: A celebration of Halloween

I wondered who the sky men had been, who came to destroy and kill those in the cities, and what bad thing had happened to them to make them worship death.

What's more important to understand is that in our endless questing, we never stumble on a beautiful secret: that God's time—kairos time—is always present and available to us, even in the daily dawnings and dyings of the circadian cycle. At any instant, if only we are aware enough to catch it, we can enter a suspended moment that contains within it layer upon layer of history, the multiple petals of the present, and the swirling mists of the future to come.

Unnecessary repetition, redundancies, and near redundancies also contribute to wordiness. For example: basic fundamentals (fundamentals); consensus of opinion (consensus); potential promise (potential); past history (history); personal friendship (friendship); total effect (effect); end result (result).

What do you mean to do?' 'Make literary history, I guess.

To marry was to say you believed in the future and in the past, too—that history and tradition and hope could stay knit together to hold you up.

Not every place has a story

To marry was to say you believed in the future and in the past, too—that history and tradition and hope could stay knit together to hold you up. But

real business of what it meant to live in those time periods came alive for