That which is written by
historians.
"History is a
myth we all agree to believe."
-
Napoleon
"'History,' Stephen said, 'is a
nightmare from which I am trying to awake.'"
-
James Joyce
"History . . . is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind."
-
Edward Gibbon
"The only thing one learns from history is that nobody learns anything from history."
-
Hegel
"History is more or less bunk."
-
Henry Ford
"
History is nostalgia with references."
She said: What is history?
And he said: History is an
angel
Being blown backwards into the
future.
He said: History is a pile of debris,
And the angel wants to go back and fix things,
To repair the things that have been broken.
But there is a storm blowing from
Paradise
And the storm keeps blowing the angel
Backwards into the future.
And this storm,
this storm
Is called
Progress...
-
Laurie Anderson, "The Nerve Bible"