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[Geology] may be looked upon as the history of the earth's changes during preparation for the reception of organized beings, a history, which has all the character of a great epic.

The awful mysteries of the Christian faith and worship were concealed from the eyes of strangers, and even of catechumens, with an affected secrecy, which served to excite their wonder and curiosity.

The history of empires is the record of human misery; the history of the sciences is that of the greatness and happiness of mankind.

The laws of a nation form the most instructive portion of its history

History has scarcely deigned to notice [Libius Severus's] birth, his elevation, his character, or his death.

The most distinguished merit of those two officers was their respective prowess, of the one in the combats of Bacchus, of the other in those of Venus.

If this Punic war was carried on without any effusion of blood, it was owing much less to the moderation than to the weakness of the contending prelates.

While the Romans languished under the ignominious tyranny of eunuchs and bishops, the praises of Julian were repeated with transport in every part of the empire, except in the palace of Constantius.

History, in fact, is no more than a list of the crimes of humanity, human follies and accidents

These idle disputants overlooked the invariable laws of nature, which have connected peace with innocence, plenty with industry, and safety with valour.

Such events may be disbelieved or disregarded; but the charity of a bishop, Acacius of Amida, whose name might have dignified the saintly calendar, shall not be lost in oblivion.

Philosophy alone can boast (and perhaps it is no more than the boast of philosophy), that her gentle hand is able to eradicate from the human mind the latent and deadly principle of fanaticism.

The subject, however various and important, has already been so frequently, so ably, and so successfully discussed, that it is now grown familiar to the reader, and difficult to the writer.

There's been no poet, no great poet in the history of poetry who hasn't also been a great reader of poetry. This is sometimes distressing to my students when I tell them this.

Indeed, if "biology is chemistry with history," as somebody has said, then nature writing is biology with love.

One doesn't just wander unvetted into someone else's epic interstellar future history.

I'm familiar with Andrei Sakharov reputation, but I don't know his personal history at all.

No species, ours included, possesses a purpose beyond the imperatives created by its genetic history.

All big things in human history have been arrived at slowly and through many compromises.

I have a strong art-history background.

I do not teach history in my films. I don't have a linear point of view or argument. What I do in my films is to live the human experience; human, whether in Nazareth or anywhere else in the world.

I don't particularly have a good memory. I think history is many times just the text written by the victors. I wanted to counter that aspect.

History portrays everything as if it could not have come otherwise. History is on the side of what happened.

We're both [with Elie Wiesel] a long way from the position of the so-called Biblical minimalists. Some of them see no history in the Bible until Josiah.

I think so. 9/11 has been a turning point in American history, there's no doubt about that.

[Shirat ha-Yam ] is one of the earliest, if not the earliest, pieces of Biblical literature that we possess. It is much closer to history than later traditions of the Exodus.

It was like a page torn from a history book, from some historical novel about the captivity of babylon or Spanish Inquisition.

The story [of the Sacrifice of Isaac ] is much more a part of theology than of history.

If we want to know history, I would think there would be every reason to.

Go over to Greece with the Iliad and Odyssey. These have elements of history, and they have non-historical elements. It's very difficult to pull them apart. And I think there's not much reason to.

As you know, I describe Shirat ha-Yam as part of an epic story that has qualities of history and which also has qualities of the mythological, of an epic.

The Holocaust is the most documented tragedy in recorded history. And therefore, later on, if there will be a later on, anyone wishing to know will know where to go for knowledge.

A year is an eternity in politics - though less than a moment in history.

I love the mystery, the reconstruction of history, and the way past and future define each other.

[On newspapers:] A first draft of history.

If history is really relevant in today's world, the proposition doesn't command much respect. Perhaps the past is a different country, but if so no one much wants to travel there.

For the first time, I had been struck by the excitement of the traveler who looks history in her subtle face.

I've always been interested in foreign relations. It's my belief that study of history should be our preparation for understanding the present rather than an escape from it.

I think it's important to recognise that 'The Da Vinci Code' opened up a vast new audience for a general readership interested in historical detective stories and research into history.

Few people know anything of the English history but what they learn from Shakespear; for our story is rather a tissue of personal adventures and catastrophes than a series of political events.

How few women have any history after the age of thirty!

The whole history of life is a record of cycles.

Know your history. It can teach you who you are, where you have come from, and how to be a better person as a result.

That history just unfolds, independently of a specified direction, of a goal, no one is willing to admit.

I'm a big stupid history nerd.

I was reading everything under the sun from music history to feminist literature to Shakespeare, which is why I'm not a complete idiot at this time.

And then there is our personal history. Memories only we share. Things not another living soul would understand.

In contemporary society [the typical lady] is an archaism, and can't hardly understand herself unless she knows her own history.

So we must love, while these moments are still called today, take part in the pain of this passion play, stretching our youth as we must, until we are ashes to dust, until time makes history of us.

The history of human growth is at the same time the history of every new idea heralding the approach of a brighter dawn, and the brighter dawn has always been considered illegal, outside of the law.