History Quotes - Page 29

History is the recital of facts represented as true. Fable, on the other hand, is the recital of facts represented as fiction.

History is the essence of innumerable biographies.

Too many historical writers are the votaries of cults, which, by definition are dedicated to whitewashing warts and hanging halos.

The greatest historian should also be a great moralist. It is no proof of impartiality to treat wickedness and goodness on the same level.

Only those are fit to live who do not fear to die and none are fit to die who have shrunk from the joy of life and the duty of life.

But George Lucas is carrying about Black actors, about Black men, about Black history, which really incorporates and tells all of history. You can't take one race out without eliminating every other race if you're going to tell the story of the human race.

It's not about finding ways to avoid God's judgment and feeling like a failure if you don't do everything perfectly. It's about fully experiencing God's love and letting it perfect you. It's not about being somebody you are not. It's about becoming who you really are.

Memmius would only be useless to him for a short time, but that he would remain useless to himself and the Republic forever.

American history is a quagmire, and the more one knows, the quaggier the mire gets.

To know the truth of history is to realize its ultimate myth and its inevitable ambiguity.

[Read] anything but history,.. for history must be false.

Something as curious as the monarchy won't survive unless you take account of people's attitudes. After all, if people don't want it, they won't have it.

The problem with allowing God a role in the history of life is not that science would cease, but rather that scientists would have to acknowledge the existence of something important which is outside the boundaries of natural science.

Psychoanalytic theory is the most stupendous intellectual confidence trick of the twentieth century and a terminal product as well-something akin to a dinosaur or zeppelin in the history of ideas, a vast structure of radically unsound design and with no posterity.

Do not applaud me. It is not I who speaks to you, but history which speaks through my mouth. Fustel de

The Armenian genocide showed what could happen when empires were beaten into nations.

Here is a shared memory that we didn't share, forgot to share, for almost ninety years.

The history of a movement, the history of a nation, the history of a race is the guide-post of that movement's destiny, that nation's destiny, that race's destiny.

But history is neither watchmaking nor cabinet construction. It is an endeavor toward better understanding.

Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.

The deepest, the only theme of human history, compared to which all others are of subordinate importance, is the conflict of skepticism with faith.

What is still more to our shame as civilized Christians, we debauch their morals already too prone to vice, and we introduce among them wants and perhaps disease which they never before knew and which serve only to disturb that happy tranquility which they and their forefathers enjoyed. If anyone denies the truth of this assertion, let him tell me what the natives of the whole extent of America have gained by the commerce they have had with Europeans.

When you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it and you argue about what to do about it only after you have had your technical success. That is the way it was with the atomic bomb.

Pierre Curie, a brilliant scientist, happened to marry a still more brilliant one-Marie, the famous Madame Curie-and is the only great scientist in history who is consistently identified as the husband of someone else.

Summation of Leviathan: "The axiom, fear; the method, logic; the conclusion, despotism."