Tag: history quotations

To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun and the sun taught me that history wasn't everything.

History is a set of lies agreed upon.

It is remarkable how closely the history of the apple tree is connected with that of man.

In the course of history men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary.

Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history for poetry expresses the universal and history only the particular.

Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history since its statements are rather of the nature of universals whereas those of history are singulars.

Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.

History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.

History repeats itself first as tragedy second as farce.

Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.

For my part I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history especially as I propose to write that history myself.

I think really China Chinese I think they really have a long history of civilization rich culture.