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![History is opaque. You see what comes out, not the script that produces events, [...] The generator of historical events is different from the events themselves, much as the minds of the gods cannot be read just by witnessing their deeds Picture Quote #1](https://img.picturequotes.com/2/804/803506/803506.webp "History is opaque. You see what comes out, not the script that produces events, [...] The generator of historical events is different from the events themselves, much as the minds of the gods cannot be read just by witnessing their deeds Picture Quote #1")
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What is the cause of historical events? Power. What is power? Power is the sum total of wills transferred to one person. On what condition are the willso fo the masses transferred to one person? On condition that the person express the will of the whole people. That is, power is power. That is, power is a word the meaning of which we do not understand (Historical Events Quotes)
What does anyone really know about the impetus to go to war? And so much is uncovered in hindsight. And there are aspects of even past wars that are only coming out now. Historians discover letters here, notes there, and look very carefully at different aspects of not only any conflict but any great historical event. (Historical Events Quotes)
I accept the resurrection of Easter Sunday not as an invention of the community of disciples, but as a historical event. If the resurrection of Jesus from the dead on that Easter Sunday were a public event which had been made known...not only to the 530 Jewish witnesses but to the entire population, all Jews would have become followers of Jesus. (Historical Events Quotes)
Historical fiction is not history. You’re blending real events and actual historical personages with characters of your own creation. (Historical Events Quotes)
The true story is that black people need to tell their history. Very few films are made by black people about slavery. That itself is a crime because slavery is a very important historical event that has held our people hostage. Forget white people’s role in it. In the end what’s important is black people remain and live with the scars and psychological issues (Historical Events Quotes)
I fell even more deeply in love with Tolkiens legendarium after studying Old English literature at uni, as I got a sense of the historical events and cultures that Tolkien used to create his world. My favourite of his imaginary locations is Lothlorien (Historical Events Quotes)
History is opaque. You see what comes out, not the script that produces events, [...] The generator of historical events is different from the events themselves, much as the minds of the gods cannot be read just by witnessing their deeds (Historical Events Quotes)
Things are only mannequins and even the great world-historical events are only costumes beneath which they exchange glances with nothingness (Historical Events Quotes)
The evolution of life, and the evolutionary origin of mankind, are scientifically established as firmly and completely as any historical event not witnessed by human observers. Any concession to anti-evolutionists, suggesting that there are scientific reasons to doubt the facticity of evolution, would be propagating a plain untruth (Historical Events Quotes)
In those fifty, the Old Man made me take religion seriously. I’d never been religious, but he told us that religion is important whether or not we believed in one, the same way that historical events are important whether or not you personally lived through them (Historical Events Quotes)
After I am dead I would like people to say: ‘Beuys understood the historical situation. He altered the course of events’. I hope in the right direction (Historical Events Quotes)
Historical investigation has for its aim to fix the order and character of events throughout past time and in all places. The task is frankly superhuman (Historical Events Quotes)
A notion for a story is for me a confluence of real events, historical perhaps, or from my own memory to create an exciting fusion (Historical Events Quotes)
The writing of history is largely a process of diversion. Most historical accounts distract attention from the secret influences behind great events (Historical Events Quotes)
We have gotten away from this double aspect of either putting the character back into historical events or of making a historical event of his very life (Historical Events Quotes)
Pictures can and do make a difference. Strong images of historical events do have an impact on society. They can help with change (Historical Events Quotes)
Each generation of adolescents has at least two historical events that color its responses to whatever happens next (Historical Events Quotes)
This is an important point about symbols: they do not refer to historical events; they refer through historical events to spiritual or psychological principles and powers that are of yesterday, today, and tomorrow, and that are everywhere (Historical Events Quotes)
When the venture has been made of dealing with historical events and characters, it always seems fair towards the reader to avow what liberties have been taken, and how much of the sketch is founded on history (Historical Events Quotes)
I believe that historians and analysts of historical events need the authority of facts supplied by living witnesses to the events, which they make their subject (Historical Events Quotes)