Hermeneutics Quote by Frank Kermode

“With the exception of professional rationalists, today people despair of true knowledge. If only the significant history of human thought were to be written,…

— Albert Camus

“Past events, it is argued, have no objective existence, but survive only in written records and in human memories. The past is whatever the…

— George Orwell

“History works on a long time scale, and at any given moment we can perceive its directions but imperfectly.”

— Daniel Walker Howe

“While we fancy ourselves going straight forward, and attaining, at every step, an entirely new position of affairs, we do actually return to something…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“Every people has a past, but the dignity of a history comes when a community of scholars devotes itself to chronicling and studying that…

— Sonia Sotomayor

“History is not a dead thing or a sure thing. It lived with our choices and our dreams. It is the story of our…

— Joan Nestle

“...that it is not the literal past, the 'facts' of history, that shape us, but images of the past embodied in language.”

— Brian Friel

“History is the diary of humankind; to forget it is to try to navigate the future with no memory of the past.”

— T.L. Rese

“So, interpretation must proceed wholly by fitting those authors into their social and historical environments. Anything else is alleged to be a denial of…

— Peter A. Lillback

“history is our attempt to reconstruct the past from the evidence that remains”

— Anonymous

“If we are going to revisit the past, let us go there only to learn from our past mistakes, and not to make it…

— Michael Bassey Johnson

“Why this book? In today’s globalized world, it seems we forget things that happened only a decade ago. Thus, we repeat the mistakes of…

— Thomas Jerome Baker