Sat/history

Famous quotes containing the words sat and/or history:

    —The man who has stood on the Acropolis,
    And looked down over Attica; or he
    Who has sailed where picturesque Constantinople is,
    Or seen Timbuctoo, or hath taken tea
    In small-eyed China’s crockery-ware metropolis,
    Or sat amidst the bricks of Nineveh,
    May not think much of London’s first appearance—
    But ask him what he thinks of it a year hence!
    George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)

    What has history to do with me? Mine is the first and only world! I want to report how I find the world. What others have told me about the world is a very small and incidental part of my experience. I have to judge the world, to measure things.
    Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951)