To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't everything. Albert Camus believecorrecthalf Change image and share on social
Secretly, I'm a real big nerd. I'd rather stay home and play Scrabble than go to a Hollywood party, any day of the week. And I love reading about history and watching the Discovery Channel. Sprague Grayden bigchannelday Change image and share on social
The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler. Franz Kafka historyinstantmankind Change image and share on social
As I got older, I got more Victorian and morbid. I got into things that circled around death, like skulls or morgue photographs or handwritten diaries. They can be almost haunted with all this history, and you project onto it and then it gets onto you. Dustin Yellin circledeathdiary share on social
The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future. Jessamyn West futureimaginationpast Change image and share on social
I write entirely in English; Tagalog chauvinists chide me for this. I feel no guilt in doing so. But I am sad that I cannot write in my native Ilokano. History demanded this; if it isn't English I am using now, I would most probably be writing in Spanish like Rizal, or even German or Japanese. F. Sionil Jose chauvinistchidedemand share on social
History is, in its essentials, the science of change. It knows and it teaches that it is impossible to find two events that are ever exactly alike, because the conditions from which they spring are never identical. Marc Bloch alikechangecondition share on social
I don't compete with other discus throwers. I compete with my own history. Al Oerter competediscushistory Change image and share on social
I must admit, maybe I am a piece of history after all. Alan Shepard admithistorypiece Change image and share on social
History's like a story in a way: it depends on who's telling it. Dorothy Salisbury Davis dependhistorystory Change image and share on social