We witness a passing phase of eternity. Important things happen but some people never notice. Accidents interfere. You are not present at episodes. You depend on reports. And people shutter their minds. What good are reports? History in a news account? Preselected at an editorial conference, digested and excreted by prejudice? Accounts you need seldom […]
History Quotes
If we admit that some infinite being has controlled the destinies of persons and peoples, history becomes a most cruel and bloody farce.
The history of mankind is little else than a narrative of designs which have failed, and hopes that have been disappointed.
Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects.
It is safe to say that every truth in the histories of those times (The Bible) is the result of accident or mistake.
The history of mankind informs us that a single power is very seldom broken by a confederacy. States of different interests, and aspects malevolent to each other, may be united for a time by common distress; and in the ardour of self-preservation fall unanimously upon an enemy, by whom they are all equally endangered. But […]
We will hereafter believe less history than ever, now that we have seen how it is made.
(Man’s) history is a tale that is told, and his very monument becomes a ruin.
Those who have no power to judge of past times but by their own, should always doubt their conclusions.
I don’t know much about history, and I wouldn’t give a nickel for all the history in the world. We don’t want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker’s damn is the history we make today.
