#history

Altogether forty-five Emperors had claimed the Spear of Destiny as their possession between the coronation in Rome of Charlemagne and the fall of the old German Empire exactly a thousand years later. And what a pagentry it was! THe Spear had passed like the very finger of destiny through the millenium forever creating new patterns of fate which had again and again changed the entire history of Europe. ... According to the legend associated with the Spear of Longinus, the claimant to this talisman of power has a choice between the service of two opposing Spirits in the fulfilment of his world historic aims -- a Good and an Evil Spirit. ↗

— Trevor Ravenscroft

#history #jesus-christ #the-occult #change

No one cared what St. Louis thought, although the city got a wink for pluck. ↗

— Erik Larson

#nonfiction #st-louis #change

I never go into the country for a change of air and a holiday. I always go instead into the eighteenth century. ↗

— Anatole France

#change

In history, the moments during which reason and reconciliation prevail are short and fleeting. ↗

— Stefan Zweig

#fleeting #history #moments #prevail #reason

As individuals express their life, so they are. ↗

— Karl Marx

#philosophy #life

It is the human habit to think in centuries from a grandparent to a grandchild because it just does take about a hundred years for things to cease to have the same meaning as they did before, ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#four-lectures #gertrude-stein #history #narration #change

History is above all else an argument. It is an argument between different historians; and, perhaps, an argument between the past and the present, an argument between what actually happened, and what is going to happen next. Arguments are important; they create the possibility of changing things. ↗

— John H. Arnold

#change

In this sense, Byzantine culture embodies the French historian Fernand Braudel's notion of the longue durée, the long term: that which survives the vicissitudes of changing governments, newfangled fashions or technological improvements, an ongoing inheritance that can both imprison and inspire. ↗

— Judith Herrin

#fernand-braudel #history #longue-duree #change

It would change everything, gentlemen. It would shift the entire balance of power in Europe-maybe the world. Alexander conquered half of it. Think what he would have done with arrows dipped in monster snot! ↗

— Rick Yancey

#history #humor #monster-snot #monstrumology #change

the story of liberty is a history of the limitation of a government power, not the increase of it. ↗

— William J Federer

#history #liberty #change