H Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with H. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“History is a hermaphrodite with many distinguished lovers. We are neither mysteries nor strangers but the living breath of revelation made flesh by the unrestrained desires of a free and universal love. Universal me. Universal you.”
--from Past Present and Future are One”
Source: Elemental: The Power of Illuminated Love
“History is a kind of introduction to more interesting people than we can possibly meet in our restricted lives; let us not neglect the opportunity.”
“History is a lie commonly agreed upon.”
“History is a light that illuminates the past,
and a key that unlocks the door to the future.”
“History is a living horse laughing at a wooden horse. History is a wind blowing where it listeth. History is no sure thing to bet on. History is a box of tricks with a lost key. History is a labyrinth of doors with sliding panels, a book of ciphers with the code in a cave of the Saragossa sea. History says, if it pleases, Excuse me, I beg your pardon, it will never happen again if I can help it.”
“History is a living whole. If one organ be removed, it is nothing but a lifeless mass.”
Source: The Meaning of History: Two Lectures
“History is a long and endlessly interesting argument, where evidence is everything and storytelling is everything else.”
“History is a madman's museum.”
Source: The Powerbook
“History is a matter of interpretation, but you have to start with certain facts.”
“History is a means of access to ourselves.”
“History is a mighty dramos, enacted upon the theatre of times, with suns for lamps and eternity for a background.”
“History is a mirror reflecting human triumphs and mistakes. By studying it, we gain insights into societal patterns, the consequences of decisions, and lessons for the future. Awareness of the past empowers wiser choices today.”
“History is a myth that men agree to believe.”
“History is a needle
for putting men asleep
anointed with the poison
Of all they want to keep.”
Source: Stranger Music: Selected Poems and Songs
“History is a novel for which the people is the author.”
“History is a novel that has been lived, a novel is history that could have been.”
“History is a novel which did take place; a novel is history that could take place.”
“History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.”
“History is a pack of lies we play on the dead.”
“History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.”
“History is a pageant and not a philosophy.”
Source: Collected essays
“History is a pathetic junkyard of broken treaties.”
“History is a people's memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals.”
Source: By any means necessary
“History is a priori amoral; it has no conscience.”
Source: Darkness at Noon: A Novel
“History is a process of transformation through conversation. In our efforts to produce change,we often forget how important it is to pay attention to what is being conserved.”
“History is a promise that is always broken in the end”
“History is a realm in which human freedom and natural necessity are curiously intermingled.”
“History is a record of exploded ideas.”
“History is a record of perpetual wars, but we are now trying to make new history.”
“History is a reflection of choices made, lessons learned, and consequences endured. To study it is not merely to memorize facts, but to understand patterns that shape societies. Awareness of the past equips us to navigate the present and influence the future.”
“History is a relay of revolutions.”
Source: Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals
“History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future."
- Warmaster Horus”
Source: False Gods
“History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.”
“History is a river that never ends. Today is history, and I am here at the fountainhead.”
Source: Rage
“History is a romance that is believed; romance, a history that is not believed.”
Source: The Works of Horatio Walpole, Earl of Orford ...
“History is a Rorschach test, people. What you see when you look at it tells you as much about yourself as it does about the past.”
Source: Revolution
“History is a sad testament to the limitations of external change, or changing things from the outside.
A dime a dozen and almost invariably overrated in hindsight, countless revolutions, insurgencies, wars, conflicts, struggles and social movements have stubbornly—and blindly—sought to create a better world.
Yet true, lasting transformation remains elusive at the groupthink level. We grapple with the same issues, generation after generation, in this hamster wheel called ‘reality.’ Why is external change so damn challenging?
Because, I contend, to echo Henry David Thoreau’s celebrated quote about the branches and roots of evil, pursuing external change only addresses symptoms, not the deeper cause.”
Source: Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality
“History is a science, no more and no less.”
“History is a series of approximations of the final singularity.”
“History is a series of mistakes. Now the task is to plan for those mistakes so those of us who are populists can actually take over the reins of power when the right mistakes are made.”
“History is a set of lies agreed upon.”
“History is a set of skills rather than a narrative.”
“History is a state of yearning. I yearn for Kay Lake throughout this entire thing. There's an essay I've written where I talked about living in the past. There's a whole motif in the book of then and now. And I lived there.”
“History is a stern judge.”
“History is a story.”
Source: The Alchemy of Finance
“History is a story of violence at work. It all comes down to the old saw that, however much you can gain with a kind word, you can gain more with a kind word and a gun.”
“History is a story written by the finger of God.”
Source: Christian Reflections
“History is a strange experience. The world is quite small now; but history is large and deep. Sometimes you can go much farther by sitting in your own home and reading a book of history, than by getting onto a ship or an airplane and traveling a thousand miles.”
“History is a string full of knots, the best you can do is admire it, and maybe tie it up a bit more. History is a hammock for swinging and a game for playing.”
“History is a symphony of echoes heard and unheard. It is a poem with events as verses.”