To secure your historical standing, be sure you are the first to write about it. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
My work has taken me from historical research to involvement in electronic publishing ventures to the directorship of the Harvard University Libraries. — Robert Darnton Copy Share Image
The Bible did not arrive by fax from heaven. The Bible is the product of man, my dear. Not of God. The… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
Shakespeare set a lot of his dramas in a historical perspective or war perspective, or he would study what was going on… — Marcia Gay Harden Copy Share Image
The chief practical use of history is to deliver us from plausible historical analogies. — James Bryce Copy Share Image
Marxism must abhor nothing so much as the possibility that it becomes congealed in its current form. It is at its best… — Rosa Luxemburg Copy Share Image
“Katie shook her head in dismay. “I thought being poor was the worst thing that could happen to a girl.” “No, Katie,”… — Jina Bacarr Copy Share Image
The technologies which have had the most profound effects on human life are usually simple. A good example of a simple technology… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
Seduction is an absolute pleasure to read -- clever, suspenseful, exciting, mysterious, learned, and engrossing. Some of the best historical fiction I've… — David Liss Copy Share Image
“Before the battle they had been discussing whether there might be life after death, and Windham and Rochester had made a pact… — Jenny Uglow Copy Share Image
If a powerful and benevolent spirit has shaped the destiny of this world, we can better discover that destiny from the words… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
I wasn't an academic looking in books for ideas. But I educated myself about historical work that was similar to mine, to… — Michael Heizer Copy Share Image
Any theory intended to describe and analyze socio-historical reality cannot restrict itself to the human spirit and disregard the totality of human… — Wilhelm Dilthey Copy Share Image
Collins masterfully blends fact and fiction...transcends the historical thriller. — Jeffery Deaver Copy Share Image
There is a vulgar incredulity, which in historical matters, as well as in those of religion, finds it easier to doubt than… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
However much an ideologue tries to bury [Lenin] beneath a proof by historical analysis, there is always this one man standing their… — Louis Althusser Copy Share Image
On the announcement that signs of extra terrestrial life were found in a meteorite, August 6, 1996 A hundred years from now… — Richard E. Berendzen Copy Share Image
For people, 'here' signifies not merely a physical space, but also an historical space. — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
The main thing going on in the 20th century is a dissolving of boundaries, all the boundaries that historical civilization put in… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
If you read Exodus 15 carefully, it describes a storm at sea. This is the old Yahwistic source. In the retelling of… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
It was the French Revolution that served as the catalyst of this renovation. Its impact was to make the concept of popular… — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
The alleged Hitlerite gas chambers and the alleged genocide of the Jews constitute one and the same historical lie, which made possible… — Robert Faurisson Copy Share Image
I was living in Paris, which is a very beautiful, very wonderful place, but a tight place as a city, a tight… — Nicolas Berggruen Copy Share Image
The two basic maxims of the so-called historical criticism are the postulate of the common and the axiom of the ordinary. Postulate… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image