University of Amsterdam - History

Famous quotes containing the word history:

“There is no history of how bad became better.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“Let it suffice that in the light of these two facts, namely, that the mind is One, and that nature is its correlative, history is to be read and written.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“Man watches his history on the screen with apathy and an occasional passing flicker of horror or indignation.”
—Conor Cruise O’Brien (b. 1917)