Ashton B. Carter Quotes

People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.

History is the essence of innumerable biographies.

History is a heavy thing everywhere.

Without understanding your history, you can't get a perspective about the present.

I have been always fascinated and seduced by history, which I think is very close, very close to literature.

A recorded past is no more than a bygone present composed of the footprints made by human beings actually going somewhere but not knowing (in any extended sense), and certainly not revealing to us, how, they came to be afoot on these particular journeys.

What man is, only his history tells.

Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?

An atmosphere of beliefs and conceptions has been formed by the labours and struggles of our forefathers, which enables us to breathe amid the various and complex circumstances of our life.

Our questions and answers are in part determined by the historical tradition in which we find ourselves. We apprehend truth from our own source within the historical tradition.

History must not be treated as something set off by itself.

History isn’t just what happened before we came on the scene. We are a part of history..

Man is a history—making creature who can neither repeat his past nor leave it behind.

Being connected with individual lives reminds us in the most basic way of the human face of history. Too often we forget how significant the lives of ordinary people are.

History is the present day consideration of what went before.

Ancient histories provide windows to knowing current affairs.

Man makes his own history, but he does not make it out of the whole cloth; he does not make it out of conditions chosen by himself, but out of such as he finds close at hand.

No work of history can ever escape its own time...we are all influenced by what we read and what we experience.

History is the record of an encounter between character and circumstances.

What history is about is human beings.

The more you read about history, the more you realize that there is nothing new under the sun.

History is nothing but assisted and recorded memory. It might almost be said to be no science at all

History is simply man’s desperate bid to give substance to his most visionary dreams.

In a certain sense all men are historians.

History is a table around which we can still sit and have a civil discourse.