history (n.) is humankind trying to get a grip.

Kim Stanley Robinson on History

Accumulate

Are Mostly Memory

Arrive Before Their Explanation

Arrive Before They Are Understood

Become More Real With Age

Become Someone Else’s Problem

Create Context

Create Depth

Create Depth Over Time

Create Identity

Create Memory

Expand

Forget

Have Long Memories

Increase Resolution

Only Make Sense Later

Outlive Ownership

Patina

Quietly Increase Value

Quietly Judge

Quietly Shape Everything

Recruit The Past

Reflect

Remain

Remember For Too Long

Remember For You

Remember Pressure

Repay Attention

Resist Compression

Reveal Themselves Slowly

Reward Curiosity

Reward Custodianship

Reward Depth

Reward Expansion

Reward Memory

Reward Preservation

Turn Space Into Place

Whitewash Without Painting

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History teaches victims to become hangmen.

For Rousseau, nature is a wise guide, man is an open question, and history is a tale of horror. These three elements form, at the outset, a chemistry of ambiguous potential.

History is the science of people. Jose Ortega y Gasset

History is the tutor of life. (Latin proverb)

trivia

History is humankind trying to get a grip.

is only invoked to ballast one's arguments in the present.

People only invoke history to ballast their arguments in the present.” Maybe

is the soap opera that hurts, the kabuki with real knives.

Because history is the soap opera that hurts, the kabuki with real knives.

is a wave that moves through time slightly faster than we do.

History is a wave that moves through time slightly faster than we do.

is like some vast thing that was always over the tight horizon, invisible except in its effects.

History was like some vast thing that was always over the tight horizon, invisible except in its effects. It was what happened when you weren't looking -- an unknowable infinity of events, which although out of control, controlled everything.

is what happens when you aren't looking -- an unknowable infinity of events, which although out of control, controls everything.

is a particle/wave duality that no one can parse or understand where individuals make history, but history is also a collective thing, a wave that people ride in their time, a wave made of individual actions.

Individuals make history, but it's also a collective thing, a wave that people ride in their time, a wave made of individual actions. So ultimately history is another particle/wave duality that no one can parse or understand.

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