History Quote by Cormac McCarthy

“In the molten fire where he lay he could watch the slow machinations of eternity, the cosmic miracle of each second being born, eggshaped,…

— William Gay

“All the labours of ages, all the devotion, all the inspiration, all the noon-day brightness of human genius, are destined to extinciton in the…

— Bertrand Russell

“Histories, chronologies and almanacs offer us the illusion of progress, even though, over and over again, we are given proof that there is no…

— Alberto Manguel

“For many feverish years he was burdened with the sensation, an ancient one to be sure, that the incredible sprawl of human history was…

— Thomas Ligotti

“All the labours of the ages, all the devotion, all the inspiration, all the noon-day brightnessof human genius, are destined to extinctionin the vast…

— Betrand Russell

“He read the veinings of a leaf, the pattern on a mushroom cap, and divined mysteries, relations, futures, possibilities: the magic of symbols, the…

— Hermann Hesse

“Just make sure to select something that was written before our hyperconnected era and yet seems timeless. Such writings can challenge our assumptions about…

— Greg McKeown

“Who knows what wonders, what horrors, may have transpired in the dim past, before our race stood erect? Who can guess at the mysteries…

— S.T. Joshi

“Learn everything that existed in the universe, and whatever was left, that dwarfish-man-shaped hole in the center, would be him by process of elimination.”

— Lois McMaster Bujold

“His origins are become remote as is his destiny and not again in all the world’s turnings will there be terrains so wild and…

— Cormac McCarthy

“He wondered where his mind had wandered this time, what life it had lived as a trail of neurons sped through networks of possibilities…

— Karl Drinkwater

“From that historically brief quite opaque moment, came the chaos of our material history, an anarchy of chronology, of mismatched remnants that delighted and…

— China Miéville