History Quotes

"The sea is the same as it has been since before men ever went on it in boats" "Science fiction is the most important literature in the history of the world, because it's the history of ideas, the history of our civilization birthing itself." "Any meaningful understanding of our world must account for the processes of change over time." "The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice; their choice." "Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him." "The role of the storyteller is to regenerate the past so that it might deliver its message for the present moment" "Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theater" "There is no document of civilization which is not at the same time a document of barbarism" "Every image of the past that is not recognized by the present as one of its own concerns threatens to disappear irretrievably" "To acknowledge our ancestors means we are aware that we did not make ourselves." "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." "Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it" "We should not live by Darwinian principles. But Darwin explains how we got here" "World history is not the ground of happiness. The periods of happiness are the blank pages of history." "The biggest difference between England and America is that England has history, while America has geography"