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History is one of those marvelous and necessary illusions we have to deal with. It's one of the ways of dealing with our world with impossible generalities which we couldn't live without.

History is what we bring to it, not just the events themselves, but how we interpret those events.

History provides a sense of where we've been and lessons that can be taken forward.

History is the interpretation of the significance that the past has for us.

The very concept of history implies the scholar and the reader. Without a generation of civilized people to study history, to preserve its records, to absorb its lessons and relate them to its own problems, history, too, would lose its meaning.

I've always been intrigued by the way history works, the way we decide what is mentioned.

We live in an era with no historical precedents. History is no longer useful as a tool in helping us understand current changes.

What we normally define as history doesn't interest me. It's a constraint.

I think if we don't understand history, if we don't keep referring back to it, we become complacent. And complacency, as we all know, it leads to repeating history.

History is a vision of God's creation on the move.