Demand Quote by Vaclav Havel

“It is a precisely datable historical event having the full weight that real historical happenings have; like them, too, it happens once only; it…

— Pope Benedict XVI

It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.

— Gertrude Stein

“Things just happen, one after another. They don't care who knows. But history ... ah, history is different. History has to be observed. Otherwise…

— Terry Pratchett

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

“Since history is not an objective reality, but only an imaginative reconstruction of vanished events, the pattern that appears useful and agreeable to one…

— Carl Lotus Becker

“History is a construct...Any point of entry is possible and all choices are arbitrary. Still there are definitive moments...We can look at these events…

— Margaret Atwood

“Nowadays our sense of history is being destroyed by the nature of our history - our memory is short and it grows shorter under…

— Lionel Trilling

This is our moment, here at the cross-roads of time. Time is relentless and as the past dissappears, we're on the verge of all…

— Billy Joel

“recent events compel us to raise anew. From the beginning, the most serious and systematic attempts to write Universal Histories saw the central issue…

— Francis Fukuyama

Every new medium transforms the nature of human thought. In the long run, history is the story of information becoming aware of itself.

— James Gleick

History is the enactment of ritual on a permanent and universal stage; and its perpetual commemoration.

— Norman O. Brown

“History is a living entity. Not just because of its survivors, and the stories they have to tell, but because of its enduring power…

— Dan Fesperman