3 Saul Bellow Quotes on History

Saul Bellow quotes on history

4. We are all such accidents. We do not make up history and culture. We simply appear, not by our own choice. We make what we can of our condition with the means available. We must accept the mixture as we find it - the impurity of it, the tragedy of it, the hope of it.

14. For the first time in history, the human species as a whole has gone into politics. Everyone is in the act, and there is no telling what may come of it.

27. There is no need to make an inventory of the times. It is demoralizing to describe ourselves to ourselves yet again. It is especially hard on us since we believe (as we have been educated to believe) that history has formed us and that we are all mini-summaries of the present age.