Famous Quotes

"Isn't history ultimately the result of our fear of boredom?"

Emile M. Cioran on History

More quotes about History

• "Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."

  Confucius on History

• "The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew."

  Abraham Lincoln on History

• "A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history."

  Mahatma Gandhi on History

• "The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little."

  Franklin D. Roosevelt on History

• "I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past."

  Thomas Jefferson on History

More quotes by Emile M. Cioran

• "The desire to die was my one and only concern to it I have sacrificed everything, even death."

• "Life inspires more dread than death - it is life which is the great unknown."

• "The fear of being deceived is the vulgar version of the quest for Truth."

• "Crime in full glory consolidates authority by the sacred fear it inspires."

• "Isn't history ultimately the result of our fear of boredom?"