A Quote by Voltaire
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All the ancient histories, as one of our wits say, are just fables that have been agreed upon
Natural history is not about producing fables.
History is always written by the winners. When two cultures clash, the loser is obliterated, and the winner writes the history books-books which glorify their own cause and disparage the conquered foe. As Napoleon once said, 'What is history, but a fable agreed upon?
Homeowners and business owners across the country agreed to pay premiums, communities agreed to adopt building codes to mitigate flood dangers, and the Federal Government agreed to provide insurance coverage to policyholders after a disaster.
Gay writers now have both a sense of history and the fables that allows them to dwell in the realms of the ridiculous and at the same time talk seriously about things.
What is history but a fable agreed upon?
History is an agreed-upon fiction.
[Jorge Luis Borges] had short stories, and I was trying to learn how to write short stories, and then he had these things in the middle that were like fables, and I loved hearing fables.
History is a set of lies agreed upon.
History is a lie commonly agreed upon.
History is the lie commonly agreed upon.
Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fantasies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing. The child mind accepts and believes them, and only through great pain and perhaps tragedy can he be in after years relieved of them.
History is not fable agreed upon, but truth disagreed upon.
History is that which is agreed upon by mutual consent.
Think what you would have been now, if instead of being fed with tales and old wives' fables in childhood, you had been crammed with geography and natural history!
The history of an oppressed people is hidden in the lies and the agreed myth of its conquerors.
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