Chicago Historical Society

Famous quotes containing the words chicago, historical and/or society:

    Must we really see Chicago in order to be educated?
    Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)

    The proverbial notion of historical distance consists in our having lost ninety-five of every hundred original facts, so the remaining ones can be arranged however one likes.
    Robert Musil (1880–1942)

    In the society of men the truth resides now less in what things are than in what they are not. Our social realities are so ugly if seen in the light of exiled truth, and beauty is no longer possible if it is not a lie.
    —R.D. (Ronald David)