history Quotes

Man is not a machine that can be remodelled for quite other purposes as occasion demands, in the hope that it will go on functioning as regularly as before but in a quite different way. He carries his whole history with him; in his very structure is written the history of mankind.

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.

The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.

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

Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.

Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.

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

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

Every age has its own poetry; in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry.