History Quote by Aileen M. Kelly

“My own interest in Herzen was sparked by an exception to this rule: Isaiah Berlin’s essays. These still seem to me to have best…

— Aileen M. Kelly

“the art of the novel revealed anything, it was that human nature was the great constant, in any culture, in any place, in any…

— Salman Rushdie

“History, which is a simple whore, has no decisive moments but is a proliferation of instants, brief interludes that vie with one another in…

— Roberto Bolaño

“If history has taught me anything about the nature of others, it has thought me that when natures can not be denied, they persist.”

— Dew Platt

“The philosophical study of nature endeavors, in the the vicissitudes of phenomena, to connect the present with the past.”

— Alexander Humboldt

“He said history was a sum of situations whose significance was never seen until long afterwards because people had been afraid to act them…

— Paul Scott

“a person could always pretend that some future event would solve many more problems than the realization of such an event could ever bring.…

— R.A. Salvatore

“Everything can happen, everything is possible and probable. Time and place do not exist; on an insignificant basis of reality the imagination spins, weaving…

— August Strindberg

“The experience of history should lead us to hope and strive to make the world better, not to despair and resign ourselves to fate.”

— Alan Beattie

“Humans make their own history, but not under circumstances of their choosing.”

— John Lanchester

“The actions of a single person can change the course of the world and create history.”

— Michael Scott

“That was the nature of history, of course: notional, partial, unknowable, a record made by the victors.”

— Kate Morton