Pendulum/history

Famous quotes containing the words pendulum and/or history:

“The pendulum oscillates between these two terms: Suffering—that opens a window on the real and is the main condition of the artistic experience, and Boredom ... that must be considered as the most tolerable because the most durable of human evils.”
—Samuel Beckett (1906–1989)

“The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)