But people tend to forget what isn't in front of their faces, and most of them are too stupid to read their history.
...that it is not the literal past, the 'facts' of history, that shape us, but images of the past embodied in language.
History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
This history of culture will explain to us the motives, the conditions of life, and the thought of the writer or reformer.
It is necessary to distinguish between history and fantasy wherever possible. And then use them against each other.
The most widely criticised singers in the history of opera, Maria Callas and Franco Corelli, happen also to be the best singers. I am honoured for being part of their group.
Michael Jordon may have been the best basketball player in history, but he couldn't have won six NBA titles without a team.
In times of war, it is often best to look to our history to see how past generations of Americans dealt with the loss of their countrymen in just causes.
History has the relation to truth that theology has to religion — ie., none to speak of
History's greatest composers would be appalled to hear their greatest works reduced to distorted hold music for businesses.
Physics advances by accepting absurdities. Its history is one of unbelievable ideas proving to be true.
History is no more fixed and dead than the future. The past is no further away than the last breath you took.
Stories, like conjuring tricks, are invented because history is inadequate for our dreams.
The imagination is the goal of history. I see culture as an effort to literally realize our collective dreams.
I've always loved mysteries, the something there that you didn't know, and with 'Case Histories' I just decide to make that more up-front.
We are anxious in the face of our unchangeable past; we long to recreate segments of our private histories, but we are stuck with them.
Find a unique path and make a successful journey over there! This is the way to have a unique place in the history!
There is no nation in the history that has not experienced bloodshed and murdering. We all have committed the same mistakes in a different manner.
If miracles represent prophecy, we must have more prophets in twenty first century than the entire human history.
Because normal human activity is worse for nature than the greatest nuclear accident in history.
They say experience is the best teacher, but I'll be damned if I know what it teaches you.
