History Quote by Saidiya V. Hartman Download Open image ““Myth is the threshold of history.”” — Saidiya V. Hartman ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare History
“Myth is not prehistory; it is timeless reality, which repeats itself in history.” — Ernst Jünger Copy Share Image
“For most of human history, myths have survived through changing times because they did not demand to be seen as a literal retelling of… — Jonah Sachs Copy Share Image
“Myth took the place of objectively conceived history. Myth, Michel Tournier has said, is “history everyone already knows.”2 As such, history becomes nothing but… — Modris Eksteins Copy Share Image
“A myth has been well described as something that in some sense happened once—but that also happens all the time. It is about timeless,… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
“some things that should not have been forgotten were lost. History became legend. Legend became myth.” — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“Without people hurting one another, there’s no such thing as story. There’s no such thing as history. The entire record of human myth and… — Van Badham Copy Share Image
“Myth could be as sustaining as reality - sometimes even more so.” — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“Every generation confronts the task of choosing its past. Inheritances are chosen as much as they are passed on. The past depends less on… — Saidiya V. Hartman Copy Share Image
“If I had hoped to skirt the sense of being a stranger in the world by coming to Ghana, then disappointment awaited me. And… — Saidiya V. Hartman Copy Share Image
Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out. They beat… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
It is said that history turns on small hinges. A human career, too, results from an accumulating series of decisions about large and small… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In the entire history of the universe, let alone in your own history, there has never been another day just like today, and there… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
History has often showed us the strength of the forces that are unleashed by the yearning for freedom. It moved people to overcome their… — Angela Merkel Copy Share Image
We find few historians who have been diligent enough in their search for truth; it is their common method to take on trust what… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
What is history after all? History is facts which become lies in the end. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Things live and die, and then someone processes them into edible portions. This is a complete telling of the story, 'Food.' The basic plot… — David Fahrenthold Copy Share Image
History is a certain way, but you just change the point of view a little bit, and you discover a whole new side of… — Allison Schroeder Copy Share Image
We're at a point in history were we have to become a part of the neighborhood of inhabited planets, like a neighborhood of a… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
