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

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

Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story.

Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story.

Nothing is improbable until it moves into past tense.

Nothing is improbable until it moves into past tense.

History is something that never happened, written by a man who wasn't there.

History is something that never happened, written by a man who wasn't there.

Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it and wiser than the one read more

Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it and wiser than the one that comes after it.

What is all our histories, but God showing himself, shaking and trampling on everything that he has not planted.

What is all our histories, but God showing himself, shaking and trampling on everything that he has not planted.

The greatest inventions were produced in the times of ignorance, as the use of the compass, gunpowder, and printing.

The greatest inventions were produced in the times of ignorance, as the use of the compass, gunpowder, and printing.

The man who sees two or three generations is like someone who sits in a conjurer's booth at a fair read more

The man who sees two or three generations is like someone who sits in a conjurer's booth at a fair and sees the tricks two or three times. They are meant to be seen only once.

The historian sees backward. In the end he also believes backward.

The historian sees backward. In the end he also believes backward.