When you're part of history, you don't know it. You're just sort of living your life.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
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.
I'm part of history.
I love history, and I thought I knew history well, but I was shocked by how little I knew about it.
History will find some of you but not all of you. Because you can't know which of you will make history, you must do your best to be ready.
One thing I've learned over these last 30 or 40 years is that people make history. There's no fait accompli to any of this.
When you tell people you're in history, they give you this pained expression because that was the course they hated in high school. But history can be exciting, intellectually rigorous, and fun.
History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living.
I feel like I've always been a full-time historian, but nobody knows it.
History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.
You can't live in history. You've got to build for the future.