Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.
Aldous Huxley
De Sade is the one completely consistent and thoroughgoing revolutionary of history.
From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow... →
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... →
Thomas Huxley
History warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
In an instant, the law was transformed: from the last passenger on the safe-haven bandwagon to a pioneer into uncharted territory. For the first time... →
Wil S. Hylton
Michael Jordon may have been the best basketball player in history, but he couldn't have won six NBA titles without a team.
Mark E. Hyman
One thing we should all understand is that we are brutally honest with search engines. You show me your search history, and I'll find something... →
Mikko Hypponen
Surveillance changes history. We know this through examples of corrupt presidents like Nixon.
These days I wonder more and more why people are pessimistic when American history actually supports optimism.
bell hooks