In high school, I loved history. I also loved cosmography, algebra. Mexico is so rich in culture and history, and I have always enjoyed that.
Natural history is not about producing fables.
History takes time. History makes memory.
I do consider myself part of black history.
We are not makers of history. We are made by history.
The only Thought which Philosophy brings with it to the contemplation of History, is the simple conception of Reason; that Reason is the Sovereign of the World; that the history of the world, therefore, presents us with a rational process.
Courage. I need courage. Because this is surely the stupidest idea in the history of guys liking girls.
Things just happen, one after another. They don't care who knows. But ... ah, history is different. History has to be observed. Otherwise it's not history. It's just... well, things happening one after another.
When you learn from experience and history, and try to walk down a different road, the present always reminds you that you need to walk down the road that experience and history did. This is why no one learns from experience and history.
In some ways, art is the most terrifying of human inventions. It preserves the right to undermine all the categories. The history of art is the history of iconoclasm, the history of some new voice saying that everything you know is wrong.
The very concept of history implies the scholar and the reader. Without a generation of civilized people to study history, to preserve its records, to absorb its lessons and relate them to its own problems, history, too, would lose its meaning.
I know it is the fashion to say that most of recorded history is lies anyway. I am willing to believe that history is for the most part inaccurate and biased, but what is peculiar to our own age is the abandonment of the idea that history could be tr...
Historians like a quiet life, and usually they get it. For the most part, history moves at a deliberate pace, working its changes subtly and incrementally. Nations and their institutions harden into shape or crumble away like sediment carried by the ...
I'm not "happy" but I'm not unhappy about it.
The promenade is a special subset of walking.
Human history is a Gaian dream.
Greece's history in the drachma was an up-and-down history, a roller coaster.
People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
That's history. I say history because it happened in the past.
I never put out a history, I put out a dramatic history.
I study history in order to give an interpretation.
