Quotes by History History is full of surprises. Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. surprise life history For history is to the nation as memory is to the individual. Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. individual memories history The use of history as therapy means the corruption of history as history. Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. use mean history Man generally is entangled in insoluble problems; history is consequently a tragedy in which we are all involved, whose keynote is anxiety and frustration, not progress and fulfilment. Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. frustration men history I still feel-kind of temporary about myself. Arthur Miller philosophy history art Newspapers are the second hand of history. This hand, however, is usually not only of inferior metal to the other hands, it also seldom works properly. Arthur Schopenhauer second-chance history hands nd now that man's history has been for the first time systematically considered as a whole, and has been found to be, like all other phenomena, subject to invariable laws, the preparatory labours of modern Science are ended. Auguste Comte law history firsts Libraries are not made, they grow. Augustine Birrell librarian library history History is a pageant and not a philosophy. Augustine Birrell pageant philosophy history I am far too much in doubt about the present, far too perturbed .about the future, to be otherwise than profoundly reverential about the past. Augustine Birrell doubt history past That great dust-heap called 'history'. Augustine Birrell world-history dust history When we skim along the surface of history we see little but the rough barren rocks that rise out of it. Augustus William Hare rocks littles history Histories used often to be stories: the fashion now is to leave out the story. Our histories are stall-fed: the facts are absorbed by the reflexions, as the meat is sometimes by the fat. Augustus William Hare fashion meat history The effects of human wickedness are written on the page of history in characters of blood: but the impression soon fades away; so more blood must be shed to renew it. Augustus William Hare character history blood Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive. Has any act of selfishness ever equalled the carnage perpetrated by disciples of altruism. Ayn Rand selfish names history The Middle Ages were an era of mysticism, ruled by blind faith and blind obedience to the dogma that faith is superior to reason. The Renaissance was specifically the rebirth of reason, the liberation of man's mind, the triumph of rationality over mysticism - a faltering, incomplete, but impassioned triumph that led to the birth of science, of individualism, of freedom. Ayn Rand mind men history It is not as late as you think. It is merely early - in the age of the rebirth of individualism. Ayn Rand age history thinking In strategy the longest way round is often the shortest way there- a direct approach to the object exhausts the attacker and hardens the resistance by compression, whereas an indirect approach loosens the defender's hold by upsetting his balance. B. H. Liddell Hart power war history History Babette Deutsch trying history children Nowhere is it ordained that history moves in a straight line. Barack Obama lines history moving «23456789101112»
