history

Each era has the fatal hubris to believe that it has once and for all climbed to the top of the mountain and can see everything as it is, from the highest and most objective vantage point possible.

Heraclitus, Empedocles, and Parmenides all state or suggest that thinking the right kinds of thoughts positively transforms our relationship to our environment. If thoughts are the right kind, it is presumably because they build on the particular receptivity of human nature to true knowledge about the nature of things, knowledge that, in turn, brings the person into greater harmony with the world around him. Thought is thus a uniquely transformative encounter with reality.

There is no replay of yesterday.

Ah, but is any history really all that ancient?' Second asked. 'Doesn't every moment from the past affect the present?' This man was more annoying than any history teacher Jordan had ever had.

So then the National Woman Suffrage Association and the American Woman Suffrage Association merged to create the National American Woman Suffrage Association, which personally I think is rather a mouthful,' Adelaide said as she set down her wineglass.'I'm sure others have much shorter terms,' the doctor said, sawing into his steak with more vigor than necessary.'Such as?' Grace asked.'There are plenty who just call us bitches, dear.

The story we write today will support the next generation.

But maybe all it needs is a moment to change the course of history.

We incline to see history through the lives of great men. That inclination blinds us to the real complexity _

...is any history really all that ancient?...Doesn't every moment from the past affect the present?

Presidents make history. I'm just a tool of history.

Only if we understand our past, can we move forward to a brighter future.

Today what was impossible is made possible and the rest is history

Every sacred existence is history of time.

History...to stand in a place and know that this where you come from for a dozen generations or maybe a hundred generations or maybe more. To know there was a great city two thousand years ago in this place, and that your ancestors helped build it and lived there and worked there. When you walk down a small road, all the others who are walking there with you from before.

The oblivion, and I'll say even the historical error, are a key factor in the creation of a nation, to the extent that the progress of historical studies is often a danger to nationality.

Improving upon nature is the very essence of plant breeding, and so it goes to the heart of one of the central debates of the human condition: the relationship between humanity and nature and the degree to which the human race has a right (or indeed a responsibility) to change plant life for its own ends.

It__ happened before. It__ all happened before. History is worth shit.

Xenophon tells us that Socrates never neglected the body and did not praise those who did. We can imagine that it was because the physical body__olatile, unseen, and implicated in an automatized natural world__ould seem so daemonic that entrusting life, both biological life and ethical life, to its dynamics could seem like ceding control of the human.