#history

With subjectivism in philosophy, anarchism in politics goes hand in hand. http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Bertrand... ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#anarchism

She had an emptiness in her eyes like a ghost tired of haunting. ↗

— Stuart Jaffe

#history #short-story #world-war-ii #short-story

Whether I like it or not, most of my images of what various historical periods feel, smell, or sound like were acquired well before I set foot in any history class. They came from Margaret Mitchell, from Anya Seton, from M.M. Kaye, and a host of other authors, in their crackly plastic library bindings. Whether historians acknowledge it or not, scholarly history’s illegitimate cousin, the historical novel, plays a profound role in shaping widely held conceptions of historical realities. ↗

— Lauren Willig

#history #historical

إن الشعب لا يتذكر ولا يروي إلا مايستطيع أن يفهمه وأن يحيله إلى أسطورة. ↗

— Ivo Andrić

#philosophy #politics #political-philosophy

The first movie was mostly about George and Julia. This one is mostly about me and Catherine and our love story and our whole history. So it's a very different movie. ↗

— Casey Affleck

#catherine #different #first #george #history

I love doing normal things - movies, shopping, going out with friends, writing, reading, taking hot bubble baths - that's a big one for relaxation. I also love to go to art and history museums. ↗

— Christina Aguilera

#art #baths #big #bubble #doing

You know, I think when I reflect on it, I think there's certainly a sense of history. When you have ambitions to play this game, you want to be one of the best ever, and you want to play so well and be so effective that you want people to remember your name 100 years from now. ↗

— Marcus Allen

#best #certainly #effective #ever #game

So the story of man runs in a dreary circle, because he is not yet master of the earth that holds him. ↗

— Will Durant

#commanding-nature #eternal-recurrence #history #history-repeating-itself #science

Catch on fire with enthusiasm, and people will come for miles to watch you burn ↗

— Jo Ann Butler

#historical-fiction #natural-history #nature

Legends should stay legends otherwise they just become history, when the natural course of things is the other way around, from history to legend. ↗

— Ian McDonald

#nature