6,230 Quotes About History

We are the offspring of history, and must establish our own paths in this most diverse and interesting of conceivable universes—one indifferent to our suffering, and therefore offering us maximum freedom to thrive, or to fail, in our own chosen way.

Like a rite of lifeI take a book in my hands.In it the earth burns, scorched,the syllables,the verses,the mythical horizon blinded by the sun.El Cid rides, lost in words,way of the poem and exile.The steppe is a bonfire of fire and loneliness.The hero and his hosts are already smoke.

But it is no use to justify yourself. It is no good to explain. It is weak to be anecdotal. It is wise to conceal the past even if there is nothing to conceal. A man's power is in the half-light, in the half-seen movements of his hand and the unguessed-at expression of his face. It is the absence of facts that frightens people: the gap you open, into which they pour their fears, fantasies, desires.

When a man learns to love, he must bear the risk of hatred.

I knew I was alone in a way that no earthling has ever been before.

We should use our imagination more than our memory.

Ainsi dans le faste ostenstatoire d'une dernière cérémonie, le bourgeois, laissant à ses fils un héritage plus riche que celui qu'il a reçu de son père, quite ce monde où il a conu au moins deux grands sources de joie, la fortune et la vanité...Thus in the ostentatious pomp of a last ceremony, the bourgeois, leaving his sons a richer heritage than he has received from his own father, departs from this world where he has known at least two great sources of joy, the fortune and the vanity...

Live your best sacred-life. It is only one-time in history.

Those unable to catalog the past are doomed to repeat it.