Quotes of: Art-history Keyword

The atoms of the earth are formed inside of stars. Nothing really dies, everything is transformed.

The Life History of a Star

Money is a public good; as such, it lends itself to private exploitation.

Manias, Panics, and Crashes: A History of Financial Crises

...and analysis proved to be the first of theoretical astronomers no less than the greatest of 'arithmeticians.

A Short Account of the History of Mathematics

If civilization is to survive, it must live on the interest, not the capital, of nature.

A Short History of Progress

There’s no point to living life unless you make history and the best way to make history is to help others.

Stay Strong

The positive testimony of history is that the State invariably had its origin in conquest and confiscation. No primitive State known to history originated in any other manner.

Our Enemy, the State

I think the only way to properly face doom is to be on time.

A Partial History of Lost Causes

The study of history requires investigation, imagination, empathy, and respect. Reverence just doesn't enter into it.

The Whites of Their Eyes: The Tea Party's Revolution and the Battle over American History

When you don't have to ask for permission innovation thrives.

Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation

Earlier 18th-century literary language was not supple enough to connect the life of the imagination to that of the street.

Wanderlust: A History of Walking

To know is always better, no matter what the answer might be.

World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War

We've been at peace about as long as e were at war.

World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War

The highest distinction is service to others.

World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War

...I fear their false urgency, their call to speed, their insistence that travel is less important than arrival...

Wanderlust: A History of Walking

You can't be neutral on a moving train.

You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times

History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other." [ ]

Collected Works of Max Beerbohm

The history books which contain no lies are extremely tedious

The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard

I think it was the institution...I was trying to master it.

The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks

History is not usually what has happened. History is what some people have thought to be significant.

Reflections

If you go down in history, don't take it too seriously because time will come and there will even be no more history, just nothingness!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Throughout the human experience people have read history because they felt that it was a pleasure and that it was in some way instructive. The profession of professor of history has taken it in a very different direction.

Donald Kagan