Leo Tolstoy

Here I am alive, and it’s not my fault, so I have to try and get by as best I can without hurting anybody until death takes over.

We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.

And you know, there’s less charm in life when you think about death–but it’s more peaceful.

All the diversity, all the charm, and all the beauty of life are made up of light and shade.

Anything is better than lies and deceit!

I often think that men don’t understand what is noble and what is ignorant, though they always talk about it.

Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph.

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

History has shown there are no invincible armies.

History teaches us that unity is strength, and cautions us to submerge and overcome our differences in the quest for common goals, to strive, with all our combined strength, for the path to true African brotherhood and unity.

Americans Never Quit. We never surrender. We never hide from history. We Make History.

The Holocaust was a crime without parallel in history, and I am proud to launch an initiative to raise awareness of and to tackle anti-Semitism in all its forms. This is the start of an important journey and we all have a part to play.

Kings are the slaves of history.

We have reason to believe that man first walked upright to free his hands for masturbation.

He who does not understand history is doomed to repeat it.

History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.

To persons uninstructed in natural history, their country or seaside stroll is a walk through a gallery filled with wonderful works of art, nine-tenths of which have their faces turned to the wall.

Any event, once it has occurred, can be made to appear inevitable by a competent historian.

England is nothing but the last ward of the European madhouse, and quite possibly it will prove to be the ward for particularly violent cases.

The historic ascent of humanity, taken as a whole, may be summarized as a succession of victories of consciousness over blind forces – in nature, in society, in man himself.

How incredible our ancestors were. The first astrophysicists, scientists, physicians, mathematicians, architects, creators of so much of the world as we know it. It’s a blessing to know what cloth you’re cut from!