"Writing history is a method of getting..." - Quote by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

“It is not enough to take steps which may someday lead to a goal; each step must be itself a goal and a step likewise.”

“We love a girl for very different qualities than understanding. We love her for her beauty, her youth, her mirth, her confidingness, her character, with its faults, caprices and God knows what other inexpressible charms; but we do not love her understanding.”

“True love is love that stays constant for ever, whatever it's fortune; whether requited or scored, filled or sent empty away.”

“No one can read the history of astronomy without perceiving that Copernicus, Newton, Laplace, are not new men, or a new kind of men, but that Thales, Anaximenes, Hipparchus, Empodocles, Aristorchus, Pythagorus, Oenipodes, had anticipated them.”

“Black men built the railroads, not blue eyes.”

“The following passage is one of those cited by Copernicus himself in his preface to De Revolutionibus: "The Syracusan Hicetas, as Theophrastus asserts, holds the view that the heaven, sun, moon, stars, and in short all of the things on high are stationary, and that nothing in the world is in motion except the earth, which by revolving and twisting round its axis with extreme velocity produces all the same results as would be produced if the earth were stationary and the heaven in motion. . . ."”

“One cannot too soon forget his errors and misdemeanors. To dwell long upon them is to add to the offense.”

“We are shaping the world faster than we can change ourselves, and we are applying to the present the habits of the past.”

“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”