Quotes About History

The first forms of writing emerged not for art, literature, or love, not for spiritual or liturgical purposes, but for business--all literature could be said to originate from sales receipts (sorry).

Your history is animal. Your future is divinity. Right now, you are like a pendulum, swinging between the two.

you can't really separate modernity from history or spiritual concerns from mundane ones. Everything feeds into everything else.

The spiritual discipline of simplicity is not a lost dream, but a recurrent version throughout history. It can be recaptured today. It must be.

Our job is not to worship history and culture like fetishes, but to feed them into our living, creative stream of personal life for spiritual and intellectual reprocessing.

If we fail to solve this moral and spiritual crisis we may be doomed like the great nations of the past.

Language is the spiritual exhalation of the nation.

The spiritual activity of millennia is deposited in language.

Don't you realize," Merlin said to his pupil, "that the history of the universe has brought us here to this second?

History, as it lies at the root of all science, is also the first distinct product of man's spiritual nature, his earliest expression of what may be called thought.

Through history, people look for something spiritual. The greatest scientists in the world were men of religion and faith, too.

So long as there's been black churches in the United States, there's been a relationship between spiritual well-being and material acquisition. This has always been the case.

All that is observable in a man-that is to say his actions and such of his spiritual existence as can be deduced from his actions-falls into the domain of history.

Adam lived 930 years. He never got to know his mother in law.

The only human disease is amnesia.

It's a wonderful feeling to be a bridge to the past and to unite generations. The sport of baseball does that, and I am just a part of it.

At Kansas City, Kansas, before the saloons were closed, they were getting ready to build an addition to the jail. Now the doors swing idly on the hinges and there is nobody to lock in the jails.

Jim Crow was king... and I heard a game in which Jackie Robinson was playing, and I felt pride in being alive

I practice the martial arts. I don't practice MMA. MMA is my job, MMA is a new sport. Martial arts is the knowledge from the ages.

The Mets just had their first .500-or-better April since July of 1992.

Sport is part of every man and woman's heritage and its absence can never be compensated for.

I'm the biggest fighter in the history of the sport. If you don't believe it, check the cash register.

I've been knocked down more than any heavyweight champion in history.

I set records that will never be equaled. In fact, I hope 90% of them don't even get printed.