Characteristics Quote by Medard Boss

Everyone can recognize history when it happens. Everyone can recognize history after is has happened; but only the wise man knows at the moment…

— Winston Churchill

As the mental endowment of a man varies with the organisation of his accumulated experiences, the better endowed he is, the more readily will…

— Otto Weininger

A man acquainted with history may, in some respect, be said to have lived from the beginning of the world, and to have been…

— David Hume

“Yet if the only form of tradition, of handing down, consisted in following the ways of the immediate generation before us in a blind…

— T.S. Eliot

“Memory is the basis of individual personality,” Miguel de Unamuno writes, “just as tradition is the basis of the collective personality of a people.…

— Christian Wiman

“We known the past - and shape our schemas about it - through memory, history, and relics but also through imagination. With such aids,…

— Wendy Griswold

“Memory is not an instrument for surveying the past but its theater. It is the medium of past experience, just as the earth is…

— Walter Benjamin

“Memory is the basis of individual personality, just as tradition is the basis of the collective personality of a people. We live in memory…

— Miguel de Unamuno

A man rising in the world is not concerned with history; he is too busy making it. But a citizen with a fixed place…

— Malcolm Cowley

“A lifetime's knowledge shimmers on the face of the land in the mind of a person who knows. The history of a place is…

— Wendell Berry

There is an ancient Indian saying that something lives only as long as the last person who remembers it. My people have come to…

— Floyd Red Crow Westerman

Man is an historical animal, with a deep sense of his own past; and if he cannot integrate the past by a history explicit…

— Geoffrey Barraclough