History Quote by Carl Lotus Becker

“Remarkable, really, the lengths to which humans will go to fit things into their version of reality.”

— Rick Riordan

“To-day, I will seek not the shadowy region; Its unsustaining vastness waxes drear; And visions rising, legion after legion, Bring the unreal world too…

— Emily Brontë

“I imagined a labyrinth of labyrinths, a maze of mazes, a twisting, turning, ever-widening labyrinth that contained both past and future and somehow implied…

— Jorge Luis Borges

“In those few short moments, we traveled a distance that transcends numbers.”

— Dave Cenker

“O the grey dull day! It seemed a limbo of painless patient consciousness through which souls of mathematicians might wander, projecting long slender fabrics…

— James Joyce

“By what seemed then and still seems a chance, the suggestion of a moment’s idle thought followed up upon familiar lines and paths that…

— Arthur Machen

“…the longer I think about it the more it seems to me that we who are still alive are unreal in the eyes of…

— W.G. Sebald

“… a night twenty years ago and forever and but a prelude to the century, but a shadow of the far deeper descent into…

— Edward Whittemore

“It is a great and beautiful spectacle to see a man somehow emerging from oblivion by his own efforts, dispelling with the light of…

— Jean Jacques Rousseau

“There are many realities pocketed away in the one we call our own. Most go blindly about their lives and never see beyond the…

— Karen Marie Moning

“In the space of a few, bright years, something new stirred in this land; something unprecedented; something wonderful; and men, being men, perceived it…

— Jack Whyte

“The age of great men, when a single mind of intelligence and vision might change the destiny of the world, was long gone.”

— Helen Simonson