history Quotes

I'm not one of those who wants to purge our society of our Christian history.

I am very conscious that you can't condemn people of an earlier era by the standards of ours.

The history of science has been one long series of violent brainstorms, as successive generations have come to terms with increasing levels of queerness in the universe.

Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?

Grounded in the natural philosophy of the Middle Ages, alchemy formed a bridge: on the one hand into the past, to Gnosticism, and on the other into the future, to the modern psychology of the unconscious.

For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.

Indeed, I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.

Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too.

Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.

I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.