History Quote by Gary Goldhammer

“As the years progress and we experience more and more, the mini-narratives that make up our lives are distorted, corrupted, so that every one…

— Michelle Richmond

“The world if full of illusions that are forced upon one's reality.”

— Steven Redhead

“We live in a world where illusion reigns and reality is frowned upon.”

— Sanjo Jendayi

“The world was ersatz and actual, forged and faked, by ourselves and unseen others. Daring to attempt to absolutely sort fake from real was…

— Jonathan Lethem

The inevitable triumph of illusion over reality that was the single most obvious truth about the history of the human race.

— Salman Rushdie

“As far back as history records people thinking, thinking people have been befuddled by the mysteries of life and existence.”

— Lewis N. Roe

“No one cares for reality, everyone stakes his essence on illusion. Slaves and dupes of their self-love, men live not in order to live…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“A key theme is that human history, behavior and reality are governed not by what we know but by what we believe.”

— Richard B. Spence

“It was different in America: the incessant perpetuation of collective fantasies makes people crave the truth and nothing but the truth--reality is the fastest…

— Aleksandar Hemon

“We live in a world of illusion and when reality is finally revealed to us, it is terrifying.”

— Harrison O. Goodhorn

“The consequences of illusions becomes reality.”

— Steven Redhead

“Since history is not an objective reality, but only an imaginative reconstruction of vanished events, the pattern that appears useful and agreeable to one…

— Carl Lotus Becker