The idea of an imprisoning vastness is also played out in the history of exploration. In America, Lewis and Clark go out into the interior of America and find a beautiful, fertile land – a wonderful, if dangerous, world. Whereas in Australia, the poor old explorer goes out, finds nothing, and dies. No Mississippi, no […]
History Quotes
History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is.
We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world – or the last.
History has the relation to truth that theology has to religion – i.e. none to speak of.
What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.
Man is fed with fables through life, and leaves it in the belief he knows something of what has been passing, when in truth he has known nothing but what has passed under his own eye.
A generation which ignores history has no past and no future.
That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that History has to teach.
There is no wisdom equal to that which comes after the event.
The three-legged stool of understanding is held up by history, languages, and mathematics. Equipped with these three you can learn anything you want to learn. But if you lack any one of them you are just another ignorant peasant with dung on your boots.
