3 December 2020 Confucius Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
3 December 2020 Carter G. Woodson And thus goes segregation which is the most far-reaching development in the history of the Negro since the enslavement of the race.
3 December 2020 John F. Kennedy History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.
3 December 2020 Hermann Hesse Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.
3 December 2020 John Hodgman As a freelance writer, I’d be asked to become an expert for various magazines on any subject, whether food or wine or history or the life span of veterinarians. I was completely unschooled in any of these things.
3 December 2020 George W. Bush Americans are rising to the tasks of history, and they expect the same of us.
3 December 2020 Arundhati Roy When you say things like, ‘We have to wipe out the Taliban,’ what does that mean? The Taliban is not a fixed number of people. The Taliban is an ideology that has sprung out of a history that, you know, America created anyway.
3 December 2020 Giuseppe Garibaldi To this wonderful page in our country’s history another more glorious still will be added, and the slave shall show at last to his free brothers a sharpened sword forged from the links of his fetters.
3 December 2020 Caroline Kennedy People don’t always realize that my parents shared a sense of intellectual curiosity and a love of reading and of history.
3 December 2020 Friedrich August von Hayek I do not think it is an exaggeration to say history is largely a history of inflation, usually inflations engineered by governments for the gain of governments.
3 December 2020 Jack Nicklaus I’ve been fortunate over my career to make a little history on the 16th hole at Augusta National.
3 December 2020 James Hillman In the history of the treatment of depression, there was the dunking stool, purging of the bowels of black bile, hoses, attempts to shock the patient. All of these represent hatred or aggression towards what depression represents in the patient.
3 December 2020 Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel The German national character is a favorite subject of character experts, probably because the less mature a nation, the more she is an object of criticism and not of history.
3 December 2020 Jon Meacham The past always seems somehow more golden, more serious, than the present. We tend to forget the partisanship of yesteryear, preferring to re-imagine our history as a sure and steady march toward greatness.
3 December 2020 Martin Heidegger But every historical statement and legitimization itself moves within a certain relation to history.
3 December 2020 Luis Gutierrez Uncertainty and fear and ignorance about immigrants, about people who are different, has a history as old as our Nation.
3 December 2020 Jose Ortega y Gasset We have need of history in its entirety, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from it.
3 December 2020 Umberto Eco From lies to forgeries the step is not so long, and I have written technical essays on the logic of forgeries and on the influence of forgeries on history.
3 December 2020 Dag Hammarskjold Destiny is something not be to desired and not to be avoided. a mystery not contrary to reason, for it implies that the world, and the course of human history, have meaning.
3 December 2020 Wendell Berry I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief… For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
3 December 2020 Alice Walker All History is current all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world.
3 December 2020 Sloane Crosley Our culture’s obsession with vintage objects has rendered us unable to separate history from nostalgia. People want heart. They want a chaser of emotion with their aesthetics.
3 December 2020 Marco Rubio Americans believe with all their heart, the vast majority of them, and the vast majority of Floridians, that the United States of America is simply the single greatest nation in all of human history.
