Societies that do not eat people are fascinated by those that do.

Societies that do not eat people are fascinated by those that do.

The true picture of the past flits by. The past can be seized only as an image which flashes up read more

The true picture of the past flits by. The past can be seized only as an image which flashes up at the instant when it can be recognized and is never seen again.

What is a society without a heroic dimension?

What is a society without a heroic dimension?

We live in a world where amnesia is the most wished-for state. When did history become a bad word?

We live in a world where amnesia is the most wished-for state. When did history become a bad word?

The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.

The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.

Nothing is improbable until it moves into past tense.

Nothing is improbable until it moves into past tense.

It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.

It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.

Histories are as perfect as the Historian is wise, and is gifted
with an eye and a soul.

Histories are as perfect as the Historian is wise, and is gifted
with an eye and a soul.

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons read more

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that History has to teach.