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History is a vast early warning system.
History is a vast early warning system.
The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.
The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.
The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.
The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.
History is a simple piece of paper covered with print. The main thing is still to make history, not to read more
History is a simple piece of paper covered with print. The main thing is still to make history, not to write it.
History knows no resting place and no plateaus.
History knows no resting place and no plateaus.
Mythology: the body of a primitive people's beliefs, concerning its origin, early history, heroes, deitits and so forth, as distinguished read more
Mythology: the body of a primitive people's beliefs, concerning its origin, early history, heroes, deitits and so forth, as distinguished from the true accounts which it invents later.
Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand read more
Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.
The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.
The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.