Millstone/history

Famous quotes containing the words millstone and/or history:

“It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones.”
—Bible: New Testament Jesus, in Luke, 17:2.

“We have need of history in its entirety, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from it.”
—José Ortega Y Gasset (1883–1955)