{"quotes":[{"text":"Have you ever plunged into the immensity of space and time by reading the geological treatises of Cuvier? Borne away on the wings of his genius, have you hovered over the illimitable abyss of the past as if a magician's hand were holding you aloft? As one penetrates from seam to seam, from stratum to stratum and discovers, under the quarries of Montmartre or in the schists of the Urals, those animals whose fossilized remains belong to antediluvian civilizations, the mind is startled to catch a vista of the milliards of years and the millions of peoples which the feeble memory of man and an indestructible divine tradition have forgotten and whose ashes heaped on the surface of our globe, form the two feet of earth which furnish us with bread and flowers. Is not Cuvier the greatest poet of our century? Certainly Lord Byron has expressed in words some aspects of spiritual turmoil; but our immortal natural historian has reconstructed worlds from bleached bones.","author":"Honoré de Balzac","tags":["baron-georges-cuvier","civilization","cuvier","discoverer","discovery","feeble","fossils","genius","geology","george-byron","george-gordon-byron","george-gordon-noel","george-gordon-noel-byron","georges-cuvier","historian","immensity","lord-byron","memory","mind","montmartre","natural","poet","poetry","science","space","time","treatise","turmoil","urals"],"id":16338,"author_id":"Honor%C3%A9+de+Balzac"},{"text":"Chicks dig historians.","author":"Cynthia Hand","tags":["historian","historians","history","humor"],"id":37222,"author_id":"Cynthia+Hand"},{"text":"The only business of the historian is to relate things exactly as they are: this he can never do as long as he is afraid.","author":"Lucian of Samosata","tags":["fear","freedom","historian","history"],"id":43866,"author_id":"Lucian+of+Samosata"},{"text":"The rate spread of EBOLA VIRUS in West Africa, is big tragedy. It is a fatal disease in the history of the world. Intensive education (formal and informal approaches) of the citizens of African can help prevent the spread. International cooperation is urgently needed to combat the EBOLA virus.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["adult-education","adult-life","adult-literacy","africa","cities-and-countries","citizen-of-the-world","citizens-of-humanity","citizens-of-the-world","citizenship","collaboration","combat","cooperation-and-attitude","cooperation-s","diseases","ebola","ebola-disease","ebola-in-africa","ebola-in-west-africa","ebola-origin","ebola-spread","ebola-victims","education","formal-education","health","health-and-fitness","health-care","health-care-reform","health-care-reform-in-africa","health-care-system","health-careers","healthy-living","historian","historians","history","history-of-mankind","history-of-philosophy","history-of-thought","history-politics","history-repeating-itself","informal","informal-education","informal-fallacy","informal-sector","information-literacy","international","international-cooperation","international-law","international-relations","preventative-medicine","prevention-of-diseases-in-africa","prevention-of-ebola","virus","west-africa","working-out","working-together","working-with-people"],"id":82337,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"...History is inherently an eclectic discipline and the skills it requires are correspondingly diverse. And therein lie its strengths. Eclecticism is sometimes treated as a dirty word. At the very least it sounds untidy - just so: if historians treat the past in too tidy a manner they lose a great deal...It is precisely the ability to embrace complexities while making sense of them, and to think flexibly about diverse phenomena at distinct analytical levels, that characterises historians' purchase on the past.","author":"Ludmilla Jordanova","tags":["eclecticism","historian","history"],"id":97860,"author_id":"Ludmilla+Jordanova"},{"text":"History is rich knowledge, In your travel, learn the brief history of the place visited. .","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["historian","historians","history","history-of-mankind","history-of-philosophy","history-of-places","history-of-the-earth","history-of-the-world","journey","journey-of-life","journey-personal-history","journey","journey-to-yourself","knoweledge","travel","travel","travel-writing","traveler-between-worlds","traveler-s-heart","travelers","travelers-blessing","traveling"],"id":98871,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"A historian is a risk-terrified prophet.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["fear","historian","history","phobia","prophet","risk"],"id":115262,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"It touched me to be trusted with something terrible.","author":"Elizabeth Kostova","tags":["atmospheric","dark","dracula","european","fiction","historian","historical","horror","moody","vampire","vlad-the-impaler"],"id":153145,"author_id":"Elizabeth+Kostova"},{"text":"This corner of history was as real as the tiled floor under our feet or the wooden tabletop under our fingers. The people to whom it had happened had actually lived and breathed and felt and thought and then died, as we did - as we would.","author":"Elizabeth Kostova","tags":["historian","history","living"],"id":161558,"author_id":"Elizabeth+Kostova"},{"text":"Professor Smith has kindly submitted his book to me before publication. After reading it thoroughly and with intense interest I am glad to comply with his request to give him my impression.The work is a broadly conceived attempt to portray man's fear-induced animistic and mythic ideas with all their far-flung transformations and interrelations. It relates the impact of these phantasmagorias on human destiny and the causal relationships by which they have become crystallized into organized religion.This is a biologist speaking, whose scientific training has disciplined him in a grim objectivity rarely found in the pure historian. This objectivity has not, however, hindered him from emphasizing the boundless suffering which, in its end results, this mythic thought has brought upon man.Professor Smith envisages as a redeeming force, training in objective observation of all that is available for immediate perception and in the interpretation of facts without preconceived ideas. In his view, only if every individual strives for truth can humanity attain a happier future; the atavisms in each of us that stand in the way of a friendlier destiny can only thus be rendered ineffective.His historical picture closes with the end of the nineteenth century, and with good reason. By that time it seemed that the influence of these mythic, authoritatively anchored forces which can be denoted as religious, had been reduced to a tolerable level in spite of all the persisting inertia and hypocrisy.Even then, a new branch of mythic thought had already grown strong, one not religious in nature but no less perilous to mankind -- exaggerated nationalism. Half a century has shown that this new adversary is so strong that it places in question man's very survival. It is too early for the present-day historian to write about this problem, but it is to be hoped that one will survive who can undertake the task at a later date.","author":"Albert Einstein","tags":["biologist","fear","forward","future","historian","homer-smith","homer-w-smith","humanity","man-and-his-gods","mythic-thought","myths","nationalism","objectivity","organized-religion","science","suffering"],"id":167924,"author_id":"Albert+Einstein"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":25,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}