Darkness Quote by Terence McKenna

History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.

— E. L. Doctorow

After all, history is a type of fantasy. For all the primary source research, in the end, the past world the historian builds is…

— Ysabeau S. Wilce

History is scraps of evidence joined by the glue of imagination.

— Subhash Kak

If we trace the history of any nation backwards into the past, we come at last to a period of myths and traditions which…

— Bal Gangadhar Tilak

History is not the accumulation of events of every kind which happened in the past. It is the science of human societies.

— Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges

History goes out of control almost as often as nature does.

— Mason Cooley

History can't be left to fend for itself. For when it comes to history and beliefs and values, we turn our future on the…

— Max De Pree

Often the presence of mind and energy of a person remote from the spotlight decide the course of history for centuries to come.

— Stefan Zweig

History is a wave that moves through time slightly faster than we do.

— Kim Stanley Robinson

History is one of those marvelous and necessary illusions we have to deal with. It's one of the ways of dealing with our world…

— Howard Nemerov

History is the science of things which are not repeated.

— Paul Valery

The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects - making it possible... to see a new…

— Susan Sontag