Famous quotes containing the words history and/or book:
“When the coherence of the parts of a stone, or even that composition of parts which renders it extended; when these familiar objects, I say, are so inexplicable, and contain circumstances so repugnant and contradictory; with what assurance can we decide concerning the origin of worlds, or trace their history from eternity to eternity?”
—David Hume (1711–1776)
“What good is a book that does not even transport us beyond all books?”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
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