"Hindsight is not necessarily the best guide to understanding what really happened. The past is often as distorted by hindsight as it is clarified by it."

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Source : Amos Elon (2003). “The Pity of it All: A Portrait of German Jews, 1743-1933”

Amos Elon

#Past Quotes #Understanding Quotes #Hindsight Quotes

“Jesus did not ask us to believe that he would be raised from the dead.”
“Essex is an amazing county, with its own set of rules. It's a completely different world.”
“As for religious faith, a lack of it shouldn't stop us from doing good deeds for their own sake.”
“A world of nice people, content in their own niceness, looking no further, turned away from God, would be just as desperately in need of salvation as a miserable world-and might be even more difficult to save.”
“No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.”
“The Nothing is spreading," groaned the first. "It's growing and growing, there's more of it every day, if it's possible to speak of more nothing. All the others fled from Howling Forest in time, but we didn't want to leave our home. The Nothing caught us in our sleep and this is what it did to us." "Is it very painful?" Atreyu asked. "No," said the second bark troll, the one with the hole in his chest. "You don't feel a thing. There's just something missing. And once it gets hold of you, something more is missing every day. Soon there won't be anything left of us.”
“Maybe 80 percent of what we conceive to be a song idea or the meaning of a song is not exactly what the artist meant most of the time. It's not bad - people can take what they want from it.”
“So over violent, or over civil that every man with him was God or Devil.”

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