Man is a history-making creature, who can neither repeat his past, nor leave it behind. — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
“The past is history, the future’s a mystery. If you’ve got a foot in each, you’re pissing on today.” — Mel Ash Copy Share Image
This is a moment in history where it is almost hard to catch your breath. — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
When I was a graduate student, the leading spirits at Harvard were interested in the history of ideas. — M. H. Abrams Copy Share Image
“The problem with the recent history of crime intelligence is this: there is little honour, no moral compass, a complete lack of… — Jacques Pauw Copy Share Image
History is the long and tragic story of the fact that privileged groups seldom give up their privileges voluntarily. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
“Isn't better to excel in your work than wasting time on fruitless things ... after all to become the history, you have… — Dr. Zeeshan Ahmed Copy Share Image
I don't have to keep a diary. It seems like for the last 40 years my life has been lived in the… — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
I would take issue with the assertion that President Trump has reached out to a diverse group for his cabinet secretaries. In… — Sarah McBride Copy Share Image
The wisdom of divine rule appears not in the perfection but in the improvement of the world... History is the true demonstration… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
Nixon has enough to overcome in terms of his legacy and his political history. Now he has to overcome the in-fighting between… — Monica Crowley Copy Share Image
More Irishmen died fighting for Britain in World War I than died fighting against her in all of Ireland's bids for independence… — David Frum Copy Share Image
“The greatest challenge that has surreptitiously arisen in our age is the challenge of knowledge, indeed, not as against ignorance; but knowledge… — Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas Copy Share Image
With my students, I always have to sell my subject because I know when you're 19, 20 years old, you've got other… — H. W. Brands Copy Share Image
“Once you were in the hands of a Grand Vizier, you were dead. Grand Viziers were always scheming megalomaniacs. It was probably… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
We see everything from the narrator's point of view, so exposition about the world is limited to what impinges directly on him… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
To me the ego is the habitual and compulsive thought processes that go through everybody's mind continuously. External things like possessions or… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“It is life, not the individual, that is conscienceless. The essential, therefore, is to understand the time for which one is born.… — Oswald Spengler Copy Share Image
The subtlest change in New York is something people don't speak much about but that is in everyone's mind. The city, for… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The constancies and equivalences adumbrated work havoc with such settled topical blocks as myth and philosophy, natural reason and revelation, philosophy and… — Eric Voegelin Copy Share Image
