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Much of what we call History is the success stories of madmen. ↗


— John Holt


#history #education

In the last analysis, the essential thing is the life of individual. This alone makes history, here alone do the great transformations take place, and the whole future, the whole history of the world, ultimately springs as a gigantic summation from these hidden source in individuals. ↗


— C.G. Jung


#individual #world #life

We do not know whether Hitler is going to found a new Islam. He is already on the way; he is like Mohammad. The emotion in Germany is Islamic; warlike and Islamic. They are all drunk with wild god. That can be the historic future. ↗


— C.G. Jung


#history #hitler #islam #prophet #life

This is what I would have done if I had to have a real job: I would have been a history teacher. ↗


— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar


#done #had #history #i #job

The subject of history is the life of peoples and mankind. ↗


— Leo Tolstoy


#life

The more I learn, the more I yearn. ↗


— Aaron B. Powell


#living #philosophy #philosophy-of-life #life

As you travel around medieval England you will come across a sport described by some contemporaries as 'abominable ... more common, undignified and worthless than any other game, rarely ending but with some loss, accident or disadvantage to the players themselves'. This is football. ↗


— Ian Mortimer


#history #medieval-life #sport #life

Our ability to look back on the past, our need or desire to make sense of it, is both a blessing and a curse; and our inability to see into the future with any degree of accuracy is, simultaneously, the thing that saves us and the thing that condemns us. ↗


— James Robertson


#history #insight #life #mankind #past

The common man wants nothing of life but health, longevity, amusement, comfort -- "happiness." He who does not despise this should turn his eyes from world history, for it contains nothing of the sort. The best that history has created is great suffering. ↗


— Oswald Spengler


#history #struggle #suffering #life

I wanted to say a certain thing to a certain man, a certain true thing that had crept into my head. I opened my head, at the place provided, and proceeded to pronounce the true thing that lay languishing there—that is, proceeded to propel that trueness, that felicitous trularity, from its place inside my head out into world life. The certain man stood waiting to receive it. His face reflected an eager accepting-ness. Everything was right. I propelled, using my mind, my mouth, all my muscles. I propelled. I propelled and propelled. I felt trularity inside my head moving slowly through the passage provided (stained like the caves of Lascaux with garlic, antihistamines, Berloiz, a history, a history) toward its debut on the world stage. Past my teeth, with their little brown sweaters knitted of gin and cigar smoke, toward its leap to critical scrutiny. Past my lips, with their tendency to flake away in cold weather— ↗


— Donald Barthelme


#language #speech #truth #life






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