Has it ever occurred to you,' he said, 'that the whole history of English poetry has been de-termined by the fact that the English language lacks rhymes?
This may be the most important proposition revealed by history: 'At the time, no one knew what was coming.
Sex drives the world and sex in on every human mind, be it a prophet or be it a saint, history has full of evidences.
No matter what he does, every person on earth plays a central role in the history of the world. And normally he doesn't know it.
The longer a nation's history, the more wars, invasions, wanderings, and periods of captivity it has seen-the greater the diversity of its faces.
I was an art history major, but never specifically contemporary. I would say where I really stopped were the abstract expressionists in the New York school.
The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt; it casts a vivid light on certain selected causes, on those which were best and greatest; it leaves all the rest in shadow and unseen.
Let us not forget that revolutions are accomplished through people, although they be nameless. Materialism does not ignore the feeling, thinking, and acting man, but explains him.
Much of what we call History is the success stories of madmen.
You know the saying: he who doesn't understand history is doomed to repeat it. And when it's repeated, the stakes are doubled.
When the British left, India was a multireligious, multiregional, multiethnic country, exploited, backward, and poor from colonialism.
There comes a moment in history when ignorance is no longer a forgivable offense... a moment when only wisdom has the power to absolve. - Bertrand Zobrist
Beyond all sciences, philosophies, theologies, and histories, a child's relentless inquiry is truly all it takes to remind us that we don't know as much as we think we know.
breath is not aware of its history; it is just breath. I wish I could be like that, or love could be like that.
At the very dawn of history, the care of the sick was actually superior to what the great majority of mankind receive today when ill.
Fine,” he said. “You’re right. We’re not normal. We’re the most fucked-up, star-crossed lovers in history. So let’s not play nice.
Do you not see how strange and wonderful that is? That all history balances on an affair of the human heart?
If asked which words one associated with the Sahara, only the most dedicated surrealist might be expected to offer "whale".
Does such a thing as "the fatal flaw," that showy dark crack running down the middle of a life, exist outside literature?
it may be a superhuman effort to lose oneself so completely, but that’s nothing compared to the effort of getting oneself back again
P6-the sociological imagination enables us to grasp history and biography and the relations between the two within sociey.
