History Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

“People forget history nowadays, he lamented, that is what the ego does, making one the prisoner of one's inflated present, ignoring the humble past…

— Aporva Kala

“History will remember him as a savage, but that's because we write the histories.”

— A.H. Septimius

“Deep in his heart, man aspires to rejoin the condition he had before consciousness. History is merely the detour he takes to get there.”

— Emil M. Cioran

“Prehistory of mankind is way too horrible to be remembered. But if we choose to ignore it, then we'll be doomed to repeat it.”

— Toba Beta

“The history of the world is but a biography of great men.”

— Thomas Carlyle

“He would come to feel that history, even more than memory, distorts the present of the past by focusing on big events and making…

— Tracy Kidder

“People forget history nowadays,that is what the ego does, making one the prisoner of one's inflated present, ignoring the humble past one had lived.”

— APORVAKALA

“Why, alone of all the more-than-five-hundred-million, should I have to bear the burden of history?”

— Salman Rushdie

“He couldn't help thinking that all that money we were spending blowing up things and killing people so far away, making people the world…

— Mark Vonnegut

“Some historians hold that history is just one damned thing after another.”

— Arnold Toynbee

“He does not know that the ultimate truth is that history ought to consist only of the anecdotes of the little people who are…

— Louis de Bernières

“I’ve always rejected the great-man idea. The belief that human history was formed by singular individuals instead of broad social forces? Romantic, but …”…

— James S.A. Corey