"History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren’t there." ― George Santayana Topic(s): History Tags: history More From George Santayana "By nature’s kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a man’s power to answer do not occur to him at all." "To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman." "The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas." More In History "World history is tragic."― Friedrich Durrenmatt "For most of our history, no one dared to tell Americans, ‘you don’t build that.’"― Rand Paul "Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery."― Albert Camus