Quotes About History

We Are Influenced by Past Experiences.

Ahora tenemos la evidencia aceptada de que necesariamente tuvo que haber alguien en la Tierra de una civilización muy desarrollada al menos hace 10,000 años.

Thot. Está sosteniendo cañas de papiro porque él fue la persona que introdujo la escritura en el mundo. La introducción de la escritura fue algo muy importante, probablemente el acto de mayor influencia que haya ocurrido en este planeta en este ciclo. Logró más cambios en nuestra evolución y conciencia que cualquier otro hecho individual en nuestra historia conocida.

Neither a wise nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.

Don't join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.

History teaches that, when powerful despots can gain something through aggression, they try, by the same methods, to gain more and more and more.

Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.

I voiced to him my grave misgivings, first on the basis of my belief that Japan was already defeated and that dropping the bomb was completely unnecessary, and secondly because I thought that our country should avoid shocking world opinion by the use of a weapon whose employment was, I thought, no longer mandatory as a measure to save American lives.

The world is more like it is now then it ever has before.

History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or timid.

O to be in finland/ now that russia's here)

The historian without his facts is rootless and futile; the facts without their historian are dead and meaningless.

The historian will tell you what happened. The Novelist will tell you what it felt like. And the historical fiction writer does both!

We view the past, and achieve our understanding of the past, only through the eyes of the present

The desire to postulate individual genius as the creative force in history is characteristic of the primitive stages of historical consciousness.

When I was very young, I was suitably impressed to learn that, appearances notwithstanding, the whale is not a fish. Nowadays these questions of classification move me less; and it does not worry me unduly when I am assured that history is not a science. This terminological question is an eccentricity of the English language. In every other European language, the equivalent word to 'science' includes history without hesitation.

the real importance of the Darwinian revolution was that Darwin, completing what Lyell had already begun in geology, brought history into science.

The historian will tell you what happened. The novelist will tell you what it felt like.

What Disneyland proposes is a technique of abbreviated shorthand culture for the masses, a mindless thrill, like an electric shock, that insists at the same time on the recipient's rich psychic relation to his country's history and language and literature. In a forthcoming time of highly governed masses in an overpopulated world, this technique may be extremely useful both as a substitute for education and, eventually, as a substitute for experience.

The genome of every human cell has memory. You know what that means? As evolved beings we have in our genes memories of the far past, of long-ago generations, memories of experiences not our own.

We have had the bomb on our minds since 1945. It was first our weaponry, and then diplomacy, and now it's our economy. How can we suppose that something so monstrously powerful could not, after 40 years, compose our identity?

Your father's doing is in you, like his father's was in him, and we can never start new, we take on all the burden: the only thing that grows is trouble, the disasters get bigger, that's all. I

How dare he fall in love with his own wife! -Salai

The working class did not rise like the sun at an appointed time. It was present at its own making.