Those who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict.

Throughout human history the apostles of purity those who have claimed to possess a total explanation have wrought havoc among mere mixed-up human beings.

I'm not one of those who wants to purge our society of our Christian history.

Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history.

In the long history of humankind (and animal kind too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.

Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.

Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history since its statements are rather of the nature of universals whereas those of history are singulars.

If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.

They died hard those savage men - like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy and they were lousy and they stunk. And I loved them.

Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.