Events Quote by Henry David Thoreau

With the destruction of history, contemporary events themselves retreat into a remote and fabulous realm of unverifiable stories, uncheckable statistics, unlikely explanations and untenable…

— Guy Debord

The history of any nation is not only a succession of events, but also a chain of ideas.

— Pyotr Chaadayev

“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

There is no history worthy attention save that of free nations; the history of nations under the sway of despotism is no more than…

— Nicolas Chamfort

“True history is almost invisible. It flows like an underground spring. It takes place in the shadows, and in silence.. And only a chosen…

— Félix J. Palma

“There remains an experience of incomparable value. We have for once learnt to see the great events of world history from below, from the…

— Ken Wilson

Events are the ephemera of history; they pass across its stage like fireflies, hardly glimpsed before they settle back into darkness and as often…

— Fernand Braudel

Any historical narrative is a bundle of silences.

— Michel-Rolph Trouillot

For feeling, not events, is to me the essence of history.

— Christopher Pike

“Nations, like individuals, have been always disposed from interest or vanity to forget their day of small things; like individuals, too, they have always…

— Hutcheson Macaulay Posnett

“History is indeed stranger than fiction. The twists and turns of human history are too outlandish for to be believable in any work of…

— A.E. Samaan

“The event of history is hidden in time.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita