Fleeting Quote by Stefan Zweig

When we consider the incidents of former days, and perceive, while reviewing the long line of causes, how the most important events of our…

— Arthur Helps

“the ease with which the big crises can wipe out the small ones that seemed so critical just a moment before. All of our…

— Arianna Huffington

“Surely an unremarkable moment for most, but for the man, it is a parting tinged with a tender sadness—he has noticed over the years…

— Dane Huckelbridge

History, as the study of the past, makes the coherence of what happened comprehensible by reducing events to a dramatic pattern and seeming them…

— Johan Huizinga

Remembrance of the past kills all present energy and deadens all hope for the future

— Maxim Gorky

In all the areas within which the spiritual life of humanity is at work, the historical epoch wherein fate has placed us is an…

— Edmund Husserl

“Life turns on little things. The momentous events in history can leave us untouched, while small events may shape our destinies.”

— Jennifer Worth

“If a moment could transform a lifetime, much time remained to weep over its implications.”

— A. H. Septimius

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

Clashes of values and the struggle for primacy constitute a constant in human history that accounts for that other constant - conflict and war.

— Charles Krauthammer

The good things in history are usually of very short duration, but afterward have a decisive influence on what happens over long periods of…

— Hannah Arendt

Reconciliation requires changes of heart and spirit, as well as social and economic change. It requires symbolic as well as practical action.

— Malcolm Fraser