History Quotes
"The historical sense involves a perception not only of the pastness of the past but of its presence"
"We are always pursued by our origins. "
"It is not that what is past casts its light on what is present or what is present its light on what is past rather image is that wherein what has been comes together in a flash with the now to form a constellation"
"To articulate the past historically does not mean to recognize it the way it was "
"The true picture of the past flits by "
"Anything you dream is fiction, and anything you accomplish is science, the whole history of mankind is nothing but science fiction."
"Prepare for the unknown by studying how others in the past have coped with the unforeseeable and the unpredictable"
"The past is indestructible; sooner or later all things will return, including the plan to abolish the past"
"Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists"
"The only good thing ever to come out of religion was the music"
"There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others."
"Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein"
"Men reject their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and honor those whom they have slain"
"What is past is prologue."
"What's done can't be undone."
"The sea is the same as it has been since before men ever went on it in boats"
"Science fiction is the most important literature in the history of the world, because it's the history of ideas, the history of our civilization birthing itself."
"Any meaningful understanding of our world must account for the processes of change over time."
"The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice; their choice."
"Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him."