“All things in this world are historical.”

“Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He has forgotten to add: the first time as tragedy, the second as farce.”

“She spent all her free time either drawing the strange things she saw in her dreams, or with her nose inside historical novels. The world held inthe pages of history felt like the real world, and the present day an illusion she had to suffer through until she could escape back into the pages of abook.”

“The handy thing about being a father is that the historic standard is so pitifully low.”

“History shows us a window into our past. Historical fiction can take us by the and and lead us into that world.”

“Historically, philosophy does not have an impressive track record of answering questions about natural world in a decisive manner.”