Quotes About Perspective

EMBRACING THE EXISTING Japanese perspective on urban history and context

The writing of history reflects the interests, predilections, and even prejudices of a given generation.

He who would confine his thought to present time will not understand present reality.

History isn't really about the past - settling old scores. It's about defining the present and who we are.

There are several books out on punk history, but I haven't read any of them. I was there.

Australia's treatment of her Aboriginal people will be the thing on which the world will judge Australia and Australians - Not just now, but in the greater perspective of history.

Every age cuts and pastes history to suit its own purposes; art always has an ax to grind.

There are no happy endings in history, only crisis points that pass.

The painter should not paint what he sees, but what will be seen.

History is nothing but a pack of tricks that we play upon the dead.

We are always remaking history. Our memory is always an interpretive reconstruction of the past, so is perspective.

Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times. The ordinary person today lives better than a king did a century ago but is ungrateful!

The thing about black history is that the truth is so much more complex than anything you could make up.

The expression 'there is nothing like the good old days' does not mean that fewer bad things happened before, but fortunately, that people tend to forget about them.

History is written by the victors.

The writing of histories - as Goethe once noted - is one way of getting rid of the weight of the past.... The writing of history liberates us from history.

History is, indeed, an argument without end.

Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.

History is no criminal court

History is a Rorschach test, people. What you see when you look at it tells you as much about yourself as it does about the past.

I'm a dramatist. Dramatists have a right to look at history and interpret it the way they see it.

The history of thought, and therefore all history, is the re-enactment of past thought in the historian's own mind.

Historians are gossips who tease the dead

History is made and preserved by and for particular classes of people. A camera in some hands can preserve an alternate history.