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. { }
If the great figures of this nation’s history were alive today, they would all have to say that they committed a felony when they applied for a job at McDonald’s.
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)
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.
It is not a first time in history that we have got people who have sold out and subverted the ideas for which they stood for in the past.
Check the history, more people died for freedom than love, people need freedom before they need love.
When undesirable and ugly addendum enters a man's life history, it become acceptable as part of the process of growing up.
All that matters is this moment and what you make of it, because the past is history and the future is just full of wishes that you can’t foresee.
History makes my mouth water - and that is as much because of the voids in what documentation remains as what is set in stone.
