Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events.

Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events.

God cannot alter the past, though historians can.

God cannot alter the past, though historians can.

Nostalgia is a seductive liar.

Nostalgia is a seductive liar.

There is properly no history, only biography.

There is properly no history, only biography.

The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.

The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.

Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history.

Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history.

John Anderson, my jo, John,
When we were first acquent,
Your locks were like the raven,
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John Anderson, my jo, John,
When we were first acquent,
Your locks were like the raven,
Your bonny brow was brent.

You have to know the past to understand the present.

You have to know the past to understand the present.

I have read somewhere or other, in Dionysius of Halicarnassus, I
think, that history is philosophy teaching by examples.

I have read somewhere or other, in Dionysius of Halicarnassus, I
think, that history is philosophy teaching by examples.