"History is nothing but assisted and recorded memory."

-- George Santayana

#Memories Quotes #History Quotes

“Some objects and events may be photographed, others, if one is to render their true quality, should be painted or set to music, since their essence is more faithfully reproduced through imagination than by the journalistic report.”

Source : Ilka Chase (1951). “New York 22: that district of the City which lies between Fiftieth and Sixtieth Streets, Fifth Avenue, and the East River”
“A free throw seems boring but then when you sort of dig into what's going on and the history and psychology and the social anthropology around the free throw - it's interesting.”

Source : "Here’s How to Get Rich or Die Podcasting". Interview with Edwin Rios, www.motherjones.com. December 25, 2015.
“If you should prefer to understand that children are those human beings who have not yet found the grasp of their own minds, then the task you have given yourself, that task of rearing a child wisely and well, is suddenly transformed from indoctrination to education, in its truest sense, and made not only possible but even likely--provided, to be sure, one little prerequisite, which is that you are not a child, that you have come into the grasp of your mind.”
“I don't know if there is any specific way to handle emotional pain. Loved ones, music, and self-medicating seem to help me.”
“If you're given champagne at lunch, there's a catch somewhere.”
“Virtue could see to do what Virtue would by her own radiant light, though sun and moon where in the flat sea sunk.”
“To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it.”
“The Lord's way is the only way for us to experience enduring happiness. His way brings sustained comfort to our souls and perennial peace to our homes.”

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