Quotes About Historia
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Historia abscondita. - Every great human being exerts a retroactive force: for his sake all of history is placed in the balance again, and a thousand secrets of the past crawl out of their hiding places - into his sunshine. There is no way of telling what may yet become part of history. Perhaps the past remains essentially undiscovered! So many retroactive forces are still needed! ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
The embrace of present and past time, in which English antiquarianism becomes a form of alchemy, engenders a strange timelessness. It is as if the little bird which flew through the Anglo-Saxon banqueting hall, in Bede's Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum, gained the outer air and became the lark ascending in Vaughan Williams's orchestral setting. The unbroken chain is that of English music itself. ~ Peter Ackroyd
According to what he tells us himself, Mrs. Fryxell used to say of Napoleon: 'I wish he could be punished for all his slaughter by having to go through a childbirth for every human being who was shot on his account'. (A. Fryxell: Min historias historia). ~ Moberg Vilhelm
Optimumque est, ut volgo dixere, aliena insania frui. And the best plan is, as the popular saying was, to profit by the folly of others. Pliny the Elder, Historia Naturalis ~ Robert Galbraith
He who has money, lives long: he who has authority, can do no wrong: he who has might, establishes right. Such is history! Ecce historia! ~ Gottfried Benn
Like a moth, Rene was attracted to the flame of fame ~ James D. Bradley
That is how we always keep our beloved dead alive, isn't it? By telling stories about them; true stories. ~ James D. Bradley
Historia (Inquiry); so that the actions of of people will not fade with time. ~ Herodotus
Late in his life, Rene complained of living a life of a celebrity one minute and a "John Doe" the next. ~ James D. Bradley
Ever since Hegel, world history, in contrast to historia, seems to be precisely what one has not seen and experienced, inquired after and investigated for himself. ~ Karl Löwith
