History Quotes

"The historical sense involves a perception not only of the pastness of the past but of its presence" "We are always pursued by our origins. " "It is not that what is past casts its light on what is present or what is present its light on what is past rather image is that wherein what has been comes together in a flash with the now to form a constellation" "To articulate the past historically does not mean to recognize it the way it was " "The true picture of the past flits by " "Anything you dream is fiction, and anything you accomplish is science, the whole history of mankind is nothing but science fiction." "Prepare for the unknown by studying how others in the past have coped with the unforeseeable and the unpredictable" "The past is indestructible; sooner or later all things will return, including the plan to abolish the past" "Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists" "The only good thing ever to come out of religion was the music" "There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others." "Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein" "Men reject their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and honor those whom they have slain" "What is past is prologue." "What's done can't be undone."