Books Quote by Hermann Hesse

“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

“Each civilization, each nation, each family, each profession, each sex and each class has its own history. Humans have so far been interested mainly…

— Theodore Zeldin

“Each generation must, out of relative obscurity, discover its mission, fulfill it, or betray it. ”

— Frantz Fanon

“Truth to tell, at any point in our lives we’ve forgotten more than we know about our own history. The world moves on, and…

— Dathan Auerbach

“Fueled by the need to interpret the past, to explore the present, and to imagine the future, each generation shapes the world of books.”

— Pawan Mishra

“Things that people do not understand or want to accept often become seen in a negative light as histories are passed down from generation…

— Holy Ghost Writer

“Today history is no more than a thin thread of the remembered stretching over an ocean of the forgotten, but time moves on, and…

— Milan Kundera

“It is ashamed that history isolates things that are common to a large populace, but families don’t disperse generational history to prevent their descendants…

— Stephen and Tiffany Domena

“What history gives us leaves upon us, on the contrary, the impression of decadence rather than of an advancing civilization.”

— Herman Bavinck

“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

“But it is part of our intellectual arrogance that we confront world history, especially in modern times, in much the same spirit that the…

— Hermann Hesse

“Each generation lives in the absolute: it behaves as if it had reached the apex if not the end of history.”

— Emil M. Cioran