Stefan Zweig Quotes

The way you 'take history' is also a way of 'making history.'

Writing history is writing the soul of the past...

I don't think you can erase history.

Write to register history, and name each thing. Write what should not be forgotten.

The very concept of history implies the scholar and the reader. Without a generation of civilized people to study history, to preserve its records, to absorb its lessons and relate them to its own problems, history, too, would lose its meaning.

I think that America has an obsession with history, really.

History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.

There are moments in history that people should be reminded of.

With each new book, the march of our national history takes a step forward. When one is present at a book launch, one is bearing witness to the birth of a new body of ideas, to the coming into being of another testimony of history.

I don't think you should ever run from history. You should learn from it and embrace it.

History is a battleground... but it has always been the case. Remembering is a radical act. Choosing what is important and what belongs in the overstuffed metaphorical dustbin of history is of vital importance.

History isn’t just what happened before we came on the scene. We are a part of history..

The President of today is the postage stamp of tomorrow.

We can neither ignore the history of the past nor create the future.

We have a national memory in this country of about 7 minutes.

History is the memory of states.

If there was a day that history was not recorded, then the history of one hundred days would be in peril.

History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product.

… history is that which transforms documents into monuments

… the whole earth is the sepulcher of famous men; and their story is not graven only on stone over their native earth, but lives on far away, without visible symbol, woven into the stuff of other men's lives.

Nothing is so retentive as a nation's memory.

History is nothing but assisted and recorded memory. It might almost be said to be no science at all

History is the record of what one age finds worthy of note in another.

We cannot escape history. We of this Congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves.... The fiery trial through which we pass, will light us down, in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.

History is on every occasion the record of what one age finds worthy of note in another.