Famous quotes containing the words history of, history, watches, mass and/or production:
“The history of persecution is a history of endeavors to cheat nature, to make water run up hill, to twist a rope of sand.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
“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 (18831955)
“An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. I am happy to be both halves, the watcher and the watched.”
—Albert Camus (19131960)
“When over Catholics the ocean rolls,
They must wait several weeks before a mass
Takes off one peck of purgatorial coals,
Because, till people know whats come to pass,
They wont lay out their money on the dead
It costs three francs for every mass thats said.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (17881824)
“In the production of the necessaries of life Nature is ready enough to assist man.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)