Aspect Quote by Julian Jaynes

History is not just about the past. It also reveals the present.

— David Von Drehle

What we normally define as history doesn't interest me. It's a constraint.

— David Christian

Sometimes history takes things into its own hands.

— Thurgood Marshall

History is weirdly dismissed as not having anything to do with the present moment.

— Gaby Hoffmann

History is a wave that moves through time slightly faster than we do.

— Kim Stanley Robinson

History unfolds itself by strange and unpredictable paths. We have little control over the future; and none at all over the past.

— Winston Churchill

History is, in its essentials, the science of change. It knows and it teaches that it is impossible to find two events that are…

— Marc Bloch

“History is a construct...Any point of entry is possible and all choices are arbitrary. Still there are definitive moments...We can look at these events…

— Margaret Atwood

History is not the linear sort of movement toward better and better things.

— Ben H. Winters

History is not the accumulation of events of every kind which happened in the past. It is the science of human societies.

— Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges

History is really a study of the future, not the past.

— Arundhati Roy

But every historical statement and legitimization itself moves within a certain relation to history.

— Martin Heidegger