For my own part, I do not believe there is one word of historical truth in the whole book (The Bible). I look upon it at best to be a romance: the principal personage of which is an imaginary or allegorical character founded upon some tale.
History Quotes
History knows no resting place and no plateaus.
Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history.
Throughout history the world has been laid waste to ensure the triumph of conceptions that are now as dead as the men that died for them.
The most persistent sound which reverberates through men’s history is the beating of war drums.
All history, of course, is the history of wars.
A historian should yield himself to his subject, become immersed in the place and period of his choice, standing apart from it now and then for a fresh view.
If one looks with a cold eye at the mess man has made of history, it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that he has been afflicted by some built-in mental disorder which drives him towards self-destruction.
If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man’s life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.
In his own lifetime Jesus made no impact on history. This is something that I cannot but regard as a special dispensation on God’s part, and, I like to think, yet another example of the ironical humor which informs so many of His purposes. To me, it seems highly appropriate that the most important figure […]
