Accessibility to information never been so advanced and easy in entire human history as it is now and we have no excuse for ignorance.
I am convinced that human history has not yet begun, that we find ourselves in the last period of the prehistoric.
Our successful stories die with us. If you are lucky enough, you go into the pages of history books where only few are interested to dig about you.
A little library, growing larger every year, is an honourable part of a man's history. It is a man's duty to have books. A library is not a luxury, but one of the necessaries of life.
You are not your illness. You have an individual story to tell. You have a name, a history, a personality. Staying yourself is part of the battle.
Novels give you the matrix of emotions, give you the flavour of a time in a way formal history cannot.
True education does not consist merely in the acquiring of a few facts of science, history, literature, or art, but in the development of character.
For most of history, man has had to fight nature to survive; in this century he is beginning to realize that, in order to survive, he must protect it.
New York is ultimately not the synthesis but merely the sum of its unfathomable subjectivities, its personal histories, its uncategorisable figures.
true monument lies not on the shelves of libraries, but in the thoughts of men, and in the history of more than one science. { }
The history of the last century shows, as we shall see later, that the advice given to governments by bankers, like the advice they gave to industrialists, was consistently good for bankers, but was often disastrous for governments, businessmen, and ...
Uncle Les: She's history! I know what to do, I've read the comics! Total... bodily... dismemberment!
Michael Corleone: If anything in this life is certain, if history has taught us anything, it is that you can kill anyone.
Morpheus: Throughout human history, we have been dependent on machines to survive. Fate, it seems, is not without a sense of irony.
I don't plan to write another science book, but I don't plan not to. I do enjoy writing histories, and taking subjects that are generally dull and trying to make them interesting.
When I was in junior high, a foreign-history teacher started a theater class. So I got my feet wet there and through high school, so I was very fascinated with acting as a means of expression.
The contents of someone's bookcase are part of his history, like an ancestral portrait." ( , New York Times, February 22, 1987)
The experience of history should lead us to hope and strive to make the world better, not to despair and resign ourselves to fate.
History – An account mostly false, of events unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools.
If, after all, men cannot always make history have a meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one.
There are moments when one feels a desperate gratitude for museums, whatever their own ambiguous histories. Their objects from lost cities lead us back to who we are.
