#history

He gave me a small smile, and in that smile I saw our whole catastrophic history playing out before my eyes. ↗

Modern man has been in search of a new language of form to satisfy new longings and aspirations - longings for mental appeasement, aspirations to unity, harmony, serenity - an end to his alienation from nature. All these arts of remote times or strange cultures either give or suggest to the modern artist forms which he can adapt to his needs, the elements of a new iconography. ↗

— Herbert Read

#art

Not everyone believed in marriage then. To marry was to say you believed in the future and in the past, too - that history and tradition and hope could stay knit together to hold you up. ↗

— Paula McLain

#marriage #tradition #marriage

read the state of the art, the rest of inspiration ↗

— Art Opportunities

#art

The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#history #interesting #itself #men #more

One of my professors once told me that the last official act of the British monarchy was when Queen Victoria refused to sign a law that made same-sex acts illegal. It would have made me think more highly of her, except the reason she objected was because she didn’t believe women would do anything like that. Parliament rewrote the law so it was specific to men, and she signed it. A tribute to enlightenment, Queen Victoria was not. Neither, as I have observed before, are werewolf packs. ↗

— Patricia Briggs

#history #humor #queen-victoria #shifters #urban-fantasy

Men did not love Rome because she was great. She was great because they had loved her. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#love

Some men are born posthumously. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#history #men

War has been glorified by men who have never been shot at. ↗

— Bobbye L. Hudspeth

#civil-war #fiction #history #war #men

To teach that a comparatively few men are responsible for the greatest forward steps of mankind is the worst sort of nonsense. ↗