What is history? An echo of the past in the future a reflex from the future on the past. less than 1 minute read
I lead no party I follow no leader. I have given the best part of my life to careful study of Islam, its law and polity, its culture, its history and its literature. less than 1 minute read
No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men. less than 1 minute read
Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic. less than 1 minute read
From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn. less than 1 minute read
Every age has its own poetry in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry. less than 1 minute read
The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments. less than 1 minute read
I don’t believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents. less than 1 minute read
She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech. less than 1 minute read
