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

— Daniel Walker Howe

“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

“The world is shaken by major events, but it is ‘transformed’ by slight subtleties. And while we may be far too small to create…

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

“recent events compel us to raise anew. From the beginning, the most serious and systematic attempts to write Universal Histories saw the central issue…

— Francis Fukuyama

“That's one of the ideas that we must always strive to understand if we are ever to understand the world around us. All things…

— Jeffrey P. Bonner

“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

History is all explained by geography.

— Robert Penn Warren

“All things in this world are historical.”

— Wael B. Hallaq

“every person on earth plays a central role in the history of the world. And normally he doesn't know it”

— Paulo Coelho

“The memorable events of history are the visible effects of the invisible changes of human thought. The reason these great events are so rare…

— Gustave Le Bon

In a certain sense, everything is everywhere at all times. For every location involves an aspect of itself in every other location. Thus every…

— Anonymous

History, human or geological, represents our hypothesis, couched in terms of past events, devised to explain our present-day observations.

— M. King Hubbert