Arrangements Quote by Daniel Dennett

“Facta! Yes, Facta ficta! - A historian has to do, not with what actually happened, but only with events supposed to have happened: for…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“It is a precisely datable historical event having the full weight that real historical happenings have; like them, too, it happens once only; it…

— Pope Benedict XVI

History is, and has always been trameled by facts. It may ignore some and deny others; but it cannot accommodate itself unreservedly to theories;…

— Agnes Repplier

Historical facts are the vital framework around which non-fiction writers construct their narratives; they are, quite simply, indispensable.

— Saul David

I have come to the realization that history is not a fixed thing, a collection of precise dates, facts and events (even cogent commencement…

— Ken Burns

“Let that be a reminder to you that the past is one thing, but what we make of it, the conclusions we draw, is…

— Yann Martel

When you think of how history is revealed, we know certain things to be facts at certain periods of time, which turn out not…

— John Malkovich

The historian does not locate known facts in a hypothetical, general pattern of processes; his aim is to link fact to fact, one unique…

— Susanne Katherina Langer

“While what I write is always largely consistent with the records that remain I freely admit that where historical fact proves a barrier to…

— Sara Sheridan

“Historians have often felt that the discovery of facts (even true ones) is only a preliminary to a higher activity, that of understanding the…

— Oswyn Murray

History is, in its essentials, the science of change. It knows and it teaches that it is impossible to find two events that are…

— Marc Bloch

“Historical reality has two sides. One is made ​​up of facts, events, material realities, and one of the ideas, images and dreams.”

— Anonymous