“Ideas shape the course of history.”

“Indeed all people of this country owe a vote of gratitude to the church for what it has done to this country in the course of our civilisation. I urge us to recognise this and offer our thanks to the church for its part in shaping the course of our history.”

“Nothing fundamental separates the course of human history from the course of physical history.”

“The course of history as a whole is no object of experience; history has no eidos, because the course of history extends into the unknown future.”

“Our understanding of history and the country is shaped by the images the survive.”

“Nobody doubts that genes can shape anatomy. The idea that they also shape behaviour takes a lot more swallowing.”

“Human history is in essence a history of ideas.”

“Only then would the insistence on participation of the action art of FLUXUS and Happening be fulfilled; only then would democracy be fully realized. Only a conception of art revolutionized to this degree can turn into a politically productive force, coursing through each person, and shaping history.”

“It is not the literal past, the 'facts' of history, that shape us, but images of the past embodied in language.”

“Our histories cling to us. We are shaped by where we come from.”