Much of history is fragmentary and essentially anachronistic — condemning the past for not being more like the present. It has no real interest in the pastness of the past.
It does not matter how long you are spending on the earth, how much money you have gathered or how much attention you have received. It is the amount of positive vibration you have radiated in life that matters,
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Amit Ray
If someone does not want me it is not the end of the world. But if I do not want me, the world is nothing but endings.
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Nayyirah Waheed
The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.
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Horace Walpole
Closed in a room, my imagination becomes the universe, and the rest of the world is missing out.
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Criss Jami
The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself.
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Carl Sagan
More Quotes By Gordon S. Wood
In monarchies, each man's desire to do what was right in his own eyes could be restrained by beer, or force, by patronage, or by honor, and by professional standing armies. By contrast, republics had to hold themselves together from the bottom up, ultimately.
Much of history is fragmentary and essentially anachronistic — condemning the past for not being more like the present. It has no real interest in the pastness of the past.
Academics have given up trying to recover an honest picture of the past and have decided that their history-writing should be simply an instrument of moral hand-wringing.
Americans became so thoroughly democratic that much of the period's political activity, beginning with the Constitution, was diverted to finding means and devices to tame that democracy.
In the decades following the Revolution, America changed so much and so rapidly that Americans not only became used to change, but came to expected and prize it.
