Famous quotes containing the words sharp and/or history:
“Why are we weighed upon with heaviness,
And utterly consumed with sharp distress,”
—Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)
“What has history to do with me? Mine is the first and only world! I want to report how I find the world. What others have told me about the world is a very small and incidental part of my experience. I have to judge the world, to measure things.”
—Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951)