Period/history

Famous quotes containing the words period and/or history:

“Intellectual life is international. Only a period of discouragement, an age that has given up on itself, that wants to “preserve,” that has been driven onto the defensive, can be intellectually nationalist. Such a period is essentially “conservative.” A person who has progress in his heart is international.”
—Robert Musil (1880–1942)

“Every literary critic believes he will outwit history and have the last word.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)