There are always some areas world history does not reach, zones of silence and undisturbed ignorance.

There are always some areas world history does not reach, zones of silence and undisturbed ignorance.

Leadership of a world-economy is an experience of power which may blind the victor to the march of history.

All history must be mobilized if one would understand the present.

Everything must be recaptured and relocated in the general framework of history, so that despite the difficulties, the fundamental paradoxes and contradictions, we may respect the unity of history which is also the unity of life.

The mere smell of cooking can evoke a whole civilization.

History may be divided into three movements: what moves rapidly, what moves slowly and what appears not to move at all.