Quotes About History

The contact with manners then is education; and this Thucydides appears to assert when he says history is philosophy learned from examples.

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The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotations.

Those long remembered can alone claim to be long forgotten.

So the reason for our cleanliness becomes apparent; cleanliness is a form of apprehension; our faulty racial memory is fathered by fear. Destiny and history are untidy; we fear memory of that disorder.

the ballerina on perfected toe Spins to the axis of a fortitude That is the sum of all her yesterdays.

Man makes his history with the one hand and "holds it up" with the other.

To pay homeage to our past is the only gesture that also includes the future.

Selles voodis oleksime unustanud oma elu, oleksime jõudnud mäletamise äärmise piirini; me kehad oleksid ühte sulanud, justnagu kujud vahakujude muuseumis on sulatatud ühte nende ajalooga, nii oleksime meie lagunenud armastuseks.

I remember young Austrian boys going to school, flocks of quail they were, sitting out their recess in different spots in the sun, rosy-cheeked, bright-eyed, with damp rosy mouths, smelling of the herd childhood, facts of history glimmering in their minds like sunlight, soon to be lost, soon to be forgotten, degraded into proof. Youth is cause, effect is age; so with the thickening of the neck we get data.

One must speak the truth about the past or not at all.

The majority of my symphonies are tombstones

The Seventh Symphony had been planned before the war and consequently, it simply cannot be seen as a reaction to Hitler's attack. The 'invasion theme' has nothing to do with the attack. I was thinking of other enemies of humanity when I composed the team.

Really, we musicians do like to talk about Mussorgsky. In fact, I think that it's the second most favourite topic after Tchaikovsky's love life.

Kakvi smo mi to ljudi? Kakav smo mi to narod?... Izme?u Azije i Evrope, na granici vera, carstava, ginuli smo nerazumno, više za druge nego za sebe... i ne stekosmo ni jednog vernog prijatelja. Taj nesre?ni i prokleti srpski narod! U Evropi smo danas jedina država koja nema nijednog istinskog prijatelja. Nijednog! Ali nas Bog opet sa?uva. Sa?uva nas zbog ne?eg. I za nešto.

U prošlost se uvek vra?amo kad nam je stvarnost neprihvatljiva, a budu?nost neizvesna. Kad nam sadasnjica uhrozi ili poruši vrednosti u koje smo verovati I koje su nam ?inile smisao, mi u istoriji trazimo uto?ište I razloge za nadu.

All of this occurs in the past, except this sentence.

So many of the loveliest things in England are melancholy.

Stay on top of your past so you can have a better view of your future.

I was the first woman to burn my bra - it took the fire department four days to put it out.

Buenos Aires puede volver a ser lo que fué, porque la civilización europea es tan {91} fuerte allí, que en despecho de las brutalidades del gobierno se ha de sostener.

In July and August 1914, fewer than fifty individuals, all of them men, made the decisions that took their countries to war.

If I had a choice as to my perfect career, I would make a couple of films a year and then concentrate on natural history.

The past is more alive to her than the present, she realizes, and the thought is suffocating.