Plus, I happened to be a history nerd. Why else would I be interested in a guy born in the year 519?
a single generation enamoured of foreign ways is almost enough in history to risk the whole continuity of civilization and learning.
If we wish to foresee the future of mathematics, our proper course is to study the history and present condition of the science.
History is the mighty tower of experience, which time has built amidst the endless fields of bygone ages. - Forward
I don’t read biographies for moral instruction, or for a history lesson. I want to know what people are saying about me.
Not everybody can let himself drift along the flow of history. Some of us have to stop to pick up what’s washed up on the banks of the river.
There has never yet been a person in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.
The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history.
There are men who have themselves whipped simply to increase their sexual pleasure. These, in contrast with true masochists, regard flagellation as a means to an end.
He soon recognized the fact that the stimulus proceeded from the idea to be in the power of a woman rather than from the act of violence itself.
Bedlam: an institution with a history so fearsome it gave its name to a synonym for chaos and pandemonium.
faith gaped at him"how the hell did you do this?" He looked at her as if she'd asked the dumbest question in history. "I'm brilliant.
A brick could be used to cook with, as a thickening agent in gravy. But as history proves, the thickest agents work for the government as tax collectors.
For me, a journey to Damascus is an amazing hunt from beginning to end, a slice through layers of history in search of treasure.
It is indeed the truth of the traumatic experience that forms the center of its psychopathology; it is not a pathology of falsehood or displacement of meaning, but of history itself” (p. 5)
There are certain books in the history of the world that should never have been written. This book makes all those look like masterpieces.
Women often get dropped from memory, and then history.
Nothing in this world, is completely new. That's why we study history and compare today, with the past. In the end, every human being, has the same way of thinking.
David Stern might be the smartest executive in the history of professional sports. His obsession with the Vagrant Kings is one of the strangest stories.
Religious fundamentalism, magical thinking and self-delusion, have been justifications for some of the most horrific atrocities in human history.
Your pretty empire took so long to build, now, with a snap of history's fingers, down it goes.
