#tory

The story as told in The Odyssey doesn't hold water. There are too many inconsistencies. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#inconsistencies #many #odyssey #story #told

History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions; the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#anthropology #belongs #history #questions #sociology

May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and, considering the history of the human race so far, may it not be that "faith" is even more difficult for Him than it is for us? ↗

— W. H. Auden

#difficult #even #faith #far #god

I'm just writing a story that I want to read. ↗

— Jean M. Auel

#just #read #story #want #writing

It took some time to gather the research and develop it into the storyline, and to finally finish an origin myth poem that I had been working on for twenty years. ↗

— Jean M. Auel

#develop #finally #finish #gather #had

The idea led me into the research, which continues to give me more ideas for the story. ↗

— Jean M. Auel

#give #give me #idea #ideas #into

It was a major dream come true at last. In many respects, Jerusalem is a very modern and important story about people in a period of transition, with all the unrest that permeates society on the eve of a new century. The big life issues are at stake. ↗

— Bille August

#big #century #come #dream #eve

My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed... And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is. ↗

— Saint Augustine

#bathed #contradictory #experience #extracting #find

The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#organization #secret #victory

History does not merely touch on language, but takes place in it. ↗

— Theodor Adorno

#history #language #merely #place #takes