Ben Casnocha Quotes

On the day when man told the story of his life to man, history was born.

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

I am just another dot in the world

You're not just this person who's from your own specific experiences, but the collective experience of what makes you who you are because of time.

In all civilizations we've studied, all cultures that we know of across the Earth and across time have invested some kind of attempt to understanding where where, where they come from, and where they are going.

History is a people's memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals.

Everything has been said, and we are more than seven thousand years of human thought too late.

Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.

A generation without history is a generation that not only loses a nation's memory but loses a sense of what it's like to be inside a human skin.

We have a memory cut in pieces. And I write trying to recover our real memory, the memory of humankind, what I call the human rainbow, which is much more colorful and beautiful than the other one, the other rainbow.

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

It is the recognition of history as a record of human experience which has inevitably resulted in the inclusion of this conquest of civilization within the framework of a complete human history.

The world is shrinking as we see more and more of it in the media, and the more we see of the world, the smaller we are, the more aware we are of how insignificant any one of us is.

Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilization, no society, no future.

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

World history is the history of the great cultures.

A nation’s attitude toward its own history is like a window into its own soul.

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.

A people without a history is like the wind over buffalo grass.

History is the zoology of the human race.

History is a novel whose author is the people.

We are reminded here of our past, of the continuity of our national story, and the virtues of resilience, ingenuity, and tolerance which created it…

History is the study of what civilizations die from. Literature is the study of what civilizations live for.

It is common to think of our own time as standing on the apex of human history.

In a certain sense all men are historians.