Quotes by History History is a big word... History is not the sort of animal you can domesticate. Antonio Tabucchi bigs animal history Peace is more precious than a piece of land. Anwar Sadat land peace history Russians can give you arms but only the United States can give you a solution. Anwar Sadat pregnancy giving history The present is the past rolled up for action, and the past is the present unrolled for understanding. Ariel Durant understanding history past People think too historically. They are always living half in a cemetery. Aristide Briand history people thinking If you would understand anything, observe its beginning and its development Aristotle development ifs history Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. Aristotle philosophical poetry history A poet's object is not to tell what actually happened but what could or would happen either probably or inevitably.... For this reason poetry is something more scientific and serious than history, because poetry tends to give general truths while history gives particular facts. Aristotle truth giving history History is a vision of God's creation on the move. Arnold J. Toynbee vision history moving [History is] petrified imagination. Arthur Baer imagination history It is with nations as it is with individuals. A book of history is a book of sermons. Arthur Conan Doyle individual book history It seems very strange ... that in the course of the world's history so obvious an improvement should never have been adopted. ... The next generation of Britishers would be the better for having had this extra hour of daylight in their childhood. Arthur Conan Doyle childhood science history The whole point of society is to be less unforgiving than nature. Arthur D. Hlavaty unforgiving whole history When a person identifies himself with a group his critical faculties are diminished and his passions enhanced by a kind of emotive resonance. The individual is not a killer, the group is, and by identifying with it, the individual becomes one. This is the infernal dialect reflected in man's history. Arthur Koestler passion men history Woe unto the defeated, whom history treads into the dust. Arthur Koestler woe-unto dust history If conquerors be regarded as the engine-drivers of History, then the conquerors of thought are perhaps the pointsmen who, less conspicuous to the traveler's eye, determine the direction of the journey. Arthur Koestler eye journey history Politics can be relatively fair in the breathing spaces of history; at its critical turning points there is no other rule possible than the old one, that the end justifies the means. Arthur Koestler breathing-space mean history Honest history is the weapon of freedom. Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. honest weapons history History is, indeed, an argument without end. Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. argument ends history The passion for tidiness is the historian's occupational disease. Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. passion disease history «1234567891011»