Existence Quote by Samuel Butler

God cannot alter the past, that is why he is obliged to connive at the existence of historians

— Samuel Butler

Therefore we Christians, in turn, are obliged not to tolerate their wanton and conscious blasphemy

— Martin Luther

“To repeat: we can tolerate existence only if we believe—in accord with a complex of illusions, a legerdemain of impenetrable deception—that we are not…

— Thomas Ligotti

We lie in order to tolerate our existence and, most of all, we lie to ourselves.

— Elena Ferrante

God cannot alter the past, though historians can.

— Samuel Butler

“It has been said that although God cannot alter the past, historians can --it is perhaps because they can be useful to Him in…

— Samuel Butler

“An ambitious freshman congresswoman demanded funding to put a public historian in every zip code in the country, a correction for what she called…

— Danielle Evans

I have learned more [from Balzac] than from all the professional historians, economists, and statisticians put together.

— Friedrich Engels

The quarrel of the sociologists with the historians is that the latter have learned so much about how to do it that they have…

— Anonymous

Well goodness knows, goodness knows what historians will write.

— Alexander Downer

Since history has no properly scientific value, its only purpose is educative. And if historians neglect to educate the public, if they fail to…

— G. M. Trevelyan

“So it appears to me, for when he could and should have wielded his pen to praise the virtues of so good a knight,…

— Miguel de Cervantes