H Quotes
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“History keeps her secrets longer than most of us. But she has one secret that I will reveal to you tonight in the greatest confidence. Sometimes there are no winners at all. And sometimes nobody needs to lose.”
“History knew the truth. History was the most inhuman product of humanity.It scooped up the whole of human will and, like the goddess Kali in Calcutta, dripped blood from its mouth as it bit and crunched.”
Source: The Decay of the Angel
“History knocks at a thousand gates at every moment, and the gatekeeper is chance. We shout into the mist for this one or that one to be opened for us, but through every gate are a thousand more. We need wit and courage to make our way while our way is making us.”
“History knows no scruples and no hesitation. Inert and unerring, she flows towards her goal. At every bend in her course she leaves the mud which she carries and the corpses of the drowned.”
Source: Darkness at noon
“History knows no scruples and no hesitation. Inert and unnering flows towards her goal. History knows herway. She makes no mistakes.”
“History laughs at both the victim and the aggressor.”
“History leaves no doubt that among of the most regrettable crimes committed by human beings have been committed by those human beings who thought of themselves as civilized. What, we must ask, does our civilization possess that is worth defending? One thing worth defending, I suggest, is the imperative to imagine the lives of beings who are not ourselves and are not like ourselves: animals, plants, gods, spirits, people of other countries, other races, people of the other sex, places and enemies.”
“History lies at the core of every conflict.
A true and unbiased understanding of the past offers the possibility of peace.
The distortion or manipulation of history, in contrast, will only sow disaster.”
Source: Ten Myths About Israel
“History made by smartness alone, is no more than caves of silicon.”
Source: Amor Apocalypse: Canım Sana İhtiyacım
“History made when mindset changed.”
Source: Master of Stupidity
“History makes myths while living makes legends, so integration makes me the best that I can be”
Source: A World of Yoga: 700 Asanas for Mindfulness and Well-Being
“History makes one wise, but not competent to solve concrete problems.”
Source: Epistemological Problems of Economics
“History makes the point time and time again No greater mischief can be created than to merge the power of religion with the power of government.”
“History marched to the drums of a clear idea...”
“History, materialism, monism, positivism, and all the "isms" of this world are old and rusty tools which I don't need or mind anymore. My principle is life, my end is death. I wish to live my life intensely for to embrace my life tragically.
You are waiting for the revolution? My own began a long time ago! When you will be ready (God, what an endless wait!) I won't mind going along with you for awhile. But when you stop, I shall continue on my insane and triumphal way toward the great and sublime conquest of the nothing!
Any society that you build will have its limits. And outside the limits of any society the unruly and heroic tramps will wander, with their wild & virgin thoughts - they who cannot live without planning ever new and dreadful outbursts of rebellion!
I shall be among them!
And after me, as before me, there will be those saying to their fellows: "So turn to yourselves rather than to your Gods or to your idols. Find what hides in yourselves; bring it to light; show yourselves!”
Source: Toward the Creative Nothing and Other Writings
“History matters. It matters whether we tell the truth about what happened centuries ago, and it matters whether we tell the truth about more recent history. It matters because if we can't we will never be able to face the present, guaranteeing that our future will be doomed.”
Source: The Heart of Whiteness: Confronting Race, Racism and White Privilege
“History may be accurate. But archaeology is precise.”
“History may be divided into three movements: what moves rapidly, what moves slowly and what appears not to move at all.”
“History may be servitude. History may be freedom. See, now they vanish. The faces and places, with the self which, as it could, loved them, to become renewed, transfigured, in another pattern.”
Source: Collected Poems 1909-1962
“History may clarify our understanding of the supreme work of art, but can never account for it completely; for the Time of art is not the same as the Time of history.”
“History may defeat the Christ but it nevertheless points to him as the law of life.”
“History may never have all the facts, but history always has the last word.”
“History may not repeat, but it often rhymes.”
“History may well record that we served liberty and saved freedom when we undertook a crash program in the field of education . . .. I hope this bill is only the forerunner of better things to come.”
“History meets romance meets suspense! Compelling, original and wildly romantic, Beatriz Williams’ prose is stunning and the plot edge-of-your-seat gripping. OVERSEAS is an absolute triumph—I loved every page.”
“History more often records the brilliant successes and spectacular defeats of contending forces than the effect of war on the common people.”
“History moves fast. It's hard to believe that gay Americans achieved full constitutional personhood just five years after corporations did!”
“History must always be taken with a grain of salt. It is, after all, not a science but an art.”
Source: Birds, beasts, and relatives
“History must be documented; every moment is a sacred history.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“History must judge John F. Kennedy not only by what he was able to accomplish in a thousand days, but also by what he inspired all of us to volunteer to do for our country.”
“History must not be written with bias, and both sides must be given, even if there is only one side.”
“History must repeat itself because we pay such little attention to it the first time.”
“History must speak for itself. A historian is content if he has been able to shed more light.”
“History must stay open, it is all humanity.”
Source: In the American Grain
“HISTORY, n. The study of the past. In
state schools, this exercise typically
involves popular fairy tales promoted by
those who rule the present.”
Source: The Unschooler's Educational Dictionary: A Lighthearted Introduction to the World of Education and Curriculum-Free Alternatives
“History needs distance, perspective. Facts and events which are too well attested cease, in some sort, to be malleable.”
Source: Pensées of Joubert
“History never embraces more than a small part of reality”
“History never exactly repeats itself, but it does some rather good impressions.”
“History never looks like history when you are living through it. It always looks confusing and messy, and it always feels uncomfortable.”
“History never really says goodbye. History says, see you later.”
“History never recorded this phrase: 'The Mass of Wise.' Because the wise is not too abundant to form masses!”
“History never repeats itself, but the Kaleidoscopic combinations of the pictured present often seem to be constructed out of the broken fragments of antique legends.”
Source: The Gilded Age
“History never repeats itself, historians do.”
“History never repeats itself. Man always does.”
“History never repeats itself; at best it sometimes rhymes.”
“History never seems to teach us any lessons. But that is no reason to give up.”
“History no longer shall be a dull book. It shall walk incarnate in every just and wise man. You shall not tell me by language and titles a catalogue of the volumes you have read. You shall make me feel what periods you have lived.”
Source: The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson
“History not used is nothing, for all intellectual life is action, like practical life, and if you don't use the stuff - well, it might as well be dead.”
“History of America, Part I (1776-1966): Declaration of Independence, Constitutional Convention, Louisiana Purchase, Civil War, Reconstruction, World War I, Great Depression, New Deal, World War II, TV, Cold war, civil-rights movement, Vietnam. History of America, Part II (1967-present): the Super Bowl era. The Super Bowl has become Main Street’s Mardi Gras.”
“History of humanity is nothing but a history of loyalty!”
Source: Dance of the Spirits: A Novel