To many fame comes too late.

To many fame comes too late.

It is not the literal past, the "facts" of history, that shape us, but images of the past embodied in read more

It is not the literal past, the "facts" of history, that shape us, but images of the past embodied in language.

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

There are people who read too much: bibliobibuli. I know some who are constantly drunk on books, as other men read more

There are people who read too much: bibliobibuli. I know some who are constantly drunk on books, as other men are drunk on whiskey or religion. They wander through this most diverting and stimulating of worlds in a haze, seeing nothing and hearing nothing.

History doesn't repeat itself - at best it sometimes rhymes

History doesn't repeat itself - at best it sometimes rhymes

In a certain sense all men are historians.

In a certain sense all men are historians.

Mythology: the body of a primitive people's beliefs, concerning its origin, early history, heroes, deitits and so forth, as distinguished read more

Mythology: the body of a primitive people's beliefs, concerning its origin, early history, heroes, deitits and so forth, as distinguished from the true accounts which it invents later.

Might does not make right, it only makes history.

Might does not make right, it only makes history.

When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong.

When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong.