Famous quotes containing the words history of, history and/or era:
“The history of the Victorian Age will never be written: we know too much about it.”
—Lytton Strachey (18801932)
“Considered in its entirety, psychoanalysis wont do. Its an end product, moreover, like a dinosaur or a zeppelin; no better theory can ever be erected on its ruins, which will remain for ever one of the saddest and strangest of all landmarks in the history of twentieth-century thought.”
—Peter B. Medawar (19151987)
“How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
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