History Quotes
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Every age cuts and pastes history to suit its own purposes; art always has an ax to grind.
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All of history misses out on the history of the soul. Human passions are so often not included in history.
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And why do we, who say we oppose tyranny and demand freedom of speech, allow people to go to prison and be vilified, and magazines to be closed down on the spot, for suggesting another version of history.
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Your loss we count as our loss. Your struggle we take as our struggle.
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There is nothing truer than myth: history, in its attempt to realize myth, distorts it, stops halfway; when history claims to have succeeded, this is nothing but humbug and mystification. Everything we dream is realizable. Reality does not have to be: it is simply what it is.
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Who will dare to write a history of human goodness?
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We have never in the history of our country been in a situation where an adversary, a foreign power, is working so hard to influence the outcome of the election, and, believe me, they're not doing it to get me elected. They're doing it to try to influence the election for Donald Trump. Now, maybe because he has praised Putin, maybe because he says he agrees with a lot of what Putin wants to do, maybe because he wants to do business in Moscow, I don't know the reasons.
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The general history of art and literature shows that the highest achievements of the human mind are, as a rule, not favourably received at first.
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Most scientific problems are far better understood by studying their history than their logic.
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Life is very much about rule breaking, about confrontation. Otherwise history would just stand still. Someone has to come along and break the rules and try for whatever reason to go about things a different way. Even if it is a simple sense of adventure, a sense of exploration. You explore concepts and things that interest you, but you are also exploring inside of yourself.
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The inner meaning of history . . . involves speculation and an attempt to get at the truth, subtle explanation of the causes and origins of existing things, and deep knowledge of the how and why of events. History, therefore, is firmly rooted in philosophy. It deserves to be accounted a branch of philosophy.
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The power of the story sheds a light and great perspective on well known facts. The power of cinema draws on that collective history.
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History is full of lessons for how water crises could have been avoided or better managed.
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I'm connected to a Wesley Snipes, and I'm connected to Giancarlo Esposito because of the history of films that we've all been a part of with Spike Lee.
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The mists remain of the false glory that erupts from history.
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History reports that the men who can manage men manage the men who can manage only things, and the men who can manage money manage all.
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A myth is a lie that conceals or reveals a truth. But if it reveals even a strand of history or truth, that's what gets my adrenaline going.
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History: the category of human phenomena which tends to catastrophe.
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It has come quickly, this crushing, industrial love of paradise. The pervert-free, less-trammeled, hundred-mile-view days were little more than two decades past, not so very long ago. Yet already my own history sounds like another country.
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Things added to things, as statistics, civil history, are inventories. Things used as language are inexhaustibly attractive.
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History will prove that this is the end of the IRA.
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It is quite rare for God to provide a great man at the necessary moment to carry out some great deep, which is why when this unusual combination of circumstance does occur, history at once records the name of the chosen one and recommends him to the admiration of posterity.
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The early church didn’t say, ‘Look what the world is coming to!’ They said, ‘Look what has come into the world’!
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The climate and the chemical properties of the Earth now and throughout its history seem always to have been optimal for life. For this to have happened by chance is as unlikely as to survive unscathed a drive blindfold through rush hour traffic.
