#history

From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#experience #history #learn #men #metaphysical

I believe that history might be, and ought to be, taught in a new fashion so as to make the meaning of it as a process of evolution intelligible to the young. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

#evolution #fashion #history #i #i believe

For most of history, Anonymous was a woman. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#history #most #woman

The best moments in reading are when you come across something - a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things - which you had thought special and particular to you. And now, here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out, and taken yours ↗

— Alan Bennett

#history #reading #person

The lovers of romance can go elsewhere for satisfaction but where can the lovers of truth turn if not to history? ↗

— Katharine Anthony

#go #history #lovers #romance #satisfaction

We live in the least ugly time in history. ↗

— Joshua Bell

#least #live #time #ugly

Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#escaped #history #remnants #shipwreck #some

If Jesus had been an actual historical figure we have a thorny paradox. Either this Jesus was a remarkable individual who said and did a host of amazing, revolutionary things – but no one outside his fringe cult noticed for over a century. Or he didn’t – and yet shortly after his death, tiny communities of worshipers that cannot agree about the most basic facts of his life spring up, scattered all across the empire. The truth is inescapable: there simply could never have been a historical Jesus. ↗

— David Fitzgerald

#christianity #history #jesus-myth #death

The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of call waiting. ↗

— Dave Barry

#call #communication #development #history #human

Never in the history of fashion has so little material been raised so high to reveal so much that needs to be covered so badly. ↗

— Cecil Beaton

#been #covered #fashion #high #history