The dignity of history.

The dignity of history.

The world's history is constant, like the laws of nature, and simple, like the souls of men. The same conditions read more

The world's history is constant, like the laws of nature, and simple, like the souls of men. The same conditions continually produce the same results.

The causes of events are ever more interesting than the events themselves.

The causes of events are ever more interesting than the events themselves.

How many pens are broken, how many ink bottles consumed, to write about things that have never happened.

How many pens are broken, how many ink bottles consumed, to write about things that have never happened.

History is fond of her grandchildren, for it offers them the marrow of the bones, which the previous generation had read more

History is fond of her grandchildren, for it offers them the marrow of the bones, which the previous generation had hurt its hands in breaking.

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

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

If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: read more

If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: "President Can't Swim.".

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.

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

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