Accidents Quote by Karl Jaspers

Our view of history diminishes the reality of the past. We concentrate on the historic event as something that has happened, and in so…

— Ian Mortimer

We learn to think of history as something that has already happened, to other people. Our own moment, filled as it is with minutiae…

— Masha Gessen

History belongs to the intercessors, who believe the future into being. If this is so, then intercession, far from being an escape from action,…

— Walter Wink

History ... may be regarded as an artificial extension and : broadening of our memories and may be used to overcome the natural bewilderment…

— James Harvey Robinson

“Why not admit history's power to divide and destroy? Why attach ourselves to the age-old stories in the belief that they are truer than…

— Lorrie Moore

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

— Winston Churchill

I think history is only ever invisible when it abets your sense of self, your desires, your ambitions, when it carries your life along…

— Garth Greenwell

However rich we may become in knowledge of the deeper causes of historical results, we forgo all understanding of history if we forget this…

— William Ernest Hocking

It takes a perverse determination to drain that instinctive curiosity away and make history seem just remote, dead and disconnected from our contemporary reality.…

— Simon Schama

Ignorant of history, we find it easy to accept our isolation from one another. We are more able to recognize differences than shared experiences…

— Linda Simon

“Maybe what has to happen is that the individual must allow himself to be swept along, must find himself in the stream of no-choice,…

— Don DeLillo

It's something that you pick up at a history class in college, the idea that history and time is something to which we can't…

— David Lowery