Ancient Quote by Goldwin Smith

“Historical fiction isn't history in the conventional sense and shouldn't be judged as such. The best historical novels are loyal to history, but it…

— Daniel Aaron

Historical novels, in particular, allow us to relive the past without the neatness of history, and with all the complexity of the present.

— Laila Lalami

“Yet if the only form of tradition, of handing down, consisted in following the ways of the immediate generation before us in a blind…

— T.S. Eliot

“One makes a great error if one believes there are 'ancients.' Only now is antiquity starting to arise. It arises in the eyes and…

— Novalis

It was a wise and useful provision of the ancients to transmit their thoughts to posterity by recording them in treatises, so that they…

— Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

Why I love the ancients so much? Aside from everything else, when I read them, the entire past between them and me unfolds at…

— Franz Grillparzer

A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

We ought never to be afraid to repeat an ancient truth, when we feel that we can make it more striking by a neater…

— Luc de Clapiers

History, we can confidently assert, is useful in the sense that art and music, poetry and flowers, religion and philosophy are useful. Without it…

— Henry Steele Commager

After all, the past is our only real guide to the future, and historical analogies are instruments for distilling and organizing the past and…

— Michael Mandelbaum

“Books have long been instruments of the divinatory arts. ”

— Alberto Manguel

Writers are the main landmarks of the past.

— Anonymous