History of Bratislava/1st Century-10th Century

Famous quotes containing the words history of, history and/or century:

    “Tell me of the height of the mountains of the moon, or of the diameter of space, and I may believe you, but of the secret history of the Almighty, and I shall pronounce thee mad.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “the future is simply nothing at all. Nothing has happened to the present by becoming past except that fresh slices of existence have been added to the total history of the world. The past is thus as real as the present.”
    —Charlie Dunbar Broad (1887–1971)

    “A nation rushing hastily to and fro, busily employed in idleness.”
    —Phaedrus (c. 1st century A.D.)